"Whisky From Small Glasses by DA Meyrick is a stunningly impressive first novel which is certain to generate a great deal of interest and excitement. A crime novel, set in a small Scottish rural town thinly disguised as Kinloch, it reveals the seething cauldron of sex, drugs, violence, corruption and murder that lies beneath the dour surface of Kinloch life.
The book starts with one body found in the sea. Two more bodies are quickly added as it becomes clear a serial killer is at large. Further ramifications include police and harbour staff corruption and the involvement of a Latvian drugs smuggling ring.
The book introduces Detective Chief Inspector Jim Daley who is destined to join the ranks of outstanding Scottish fictional detectives. Daley’s complex relationships, with his bosses; his colleagues; and his unfaithful but passionately loved wife, drive the story of Whisky From Small Glasses forward to a dramatic and almost unbearable conclusion.
It is a marvellous book that will thrill and engage all its readers. It belongs to that category of the best crime fiction which uses the format to say important things about life in contemporary Scotland. Whisky From Small Glasses is a book that is likely to endure, and will be the first in a series of crime novels set in rural South West Scotland that will transcend their genre and will comment on how such rural communities are coming to terms with 21st Century life and all its complexities."
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