The Last Witness: A D.C.I. Daley Thriller
By (Author) Denzil Meyrick
Birlinn General
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
1st September 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 195mm, Spine 20mm
235g
James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and conviction. But now, five years later, he is apparently back from the grave, set on avenging himself on those who brought him down. Top of his list is his previous associate, Frank MacDougall, who unbeknownst to D.C.I. Jim Daley, is living under protection on his lochside patch, the small Scottish town of Kinloch. Daley knows that, having been the key to Machie's conviction, his old friend and colleague D.S. Scott is almost as big a target. And nothing, not even death, has ever stood in James Machie's way . . .
'The Last Witness has an excellent trait that is essential to all crime stories: that is wonderful, affable and realistic protagonists' - Dundee University Review of the Arts
After studying politics, Denzil Meyrick worked as a police officer, distillery manager, freelance journalist, and company director. He is originally from Campbeltown in Argyll, but now lives with his wife Fiona on Loch Lomondside.