Denzil Meyrick

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Denzil Meyrick
Born (1965-11-28) 28 November 1965 (age 57)
Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality British
Alma mater Paisley University
Genre Crime fiction

Denzil Meyrick (born 28 November 1965) is a Scottish bestselling novelist. Prior to that, he served as a police officer with Strathclyde Police then a manager with Springbank Distillery in Campbeltown, Argyll. Since 2012 Denzil Meyrick has worked as a writer of Scottish crime fiction novels. [1] He is also an executive director of media production company Houses of Steel.[ citation needed ]

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Career

Denzil Meyrick was educated at Campbeltown Grammar School, Argyll and then completed tertiary education at the University of Paisley. He is an author and his main series of novels are nine books of the Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Jim Daley crime thriller series, set in the fictitious town of 'Kinloch', which is modelled on Campbeltown. [2] Denzil Meyrick draws from experience during his twenties when he saw service as a police officer with Strathclyde Police. After his time there he followed a varied career, including the management of a distillery in Campbeltown. He had many diverse roles, ranging from the director of a large engineering company to freelance journalism in both print and on radio.

In 2012, his first crime fiction novel, Whisky From Small Glasses was published. It was the first of his DCI Daley series. This novel was reprinted in 2014 by Polygon, a division of Birlinn. [3] Following publication of that first story, Meyrick signed with Birlinn, where his next crime novels were published under the Polygon imprint. [4] [5] He is also published by HarperCollins Germany, and Aria in the United States.

Novels

Anthology and short stories

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