Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this ARC

Great book, even though I haven't read any of the others in the series. I will have to start from the beginning to get to know the characters a little better.

I don't know what to say, that hasn't been said already to be honest. I loved this whole series of books and this last one is just very emotional after the death of the author. One of the best Scottish crime fiction authors I have ever read. Rest in peace Denzil, your family, friends and readers will miss you greatly. Over and out.

Denzil Meyrick is among my favorite authors, and its really sad to think this was his last book. This was a brilliant ending to a talented author's career.

As a follower of this author and someone who ranks Daley and Scott as a brilliant pair of police officers. I have enjoyed sharing their journey and this is a fitting conclusion to their stories and encompasses all that readers find so real in their relationship.

Set in a quite beautiful and idyllic area of Scotland these tales are authentic, filled with real personalities, littered with remarkable and memorable characters. A wonderful sense of place and community, brought home to me here through the passages that involve Hamish.

A dark tale of revenge and corruption. Perhaps showing how a career can be seen as a path of least resistance, turning a blind eye to bad apples and muddling through to your pension.

While Jim Daley is away in London something terrible happens and quickly he is arrested and framed for murder. Brian Scott is “given scope” to go to the try and help his friend. But someone high up in the Met seems to be pulling the strings of the wider police force. They want Daley to suffer and no-ones likes a ‘dirty cop’. But even Scott’s involvement isn’t welcomed and indirectly brings a threat back to Kinloch and those dear to him and Daley.

The action set pieces are tense and a threat seems to hang over each chapter as the locations and focus shift between Daley, Scott and their extended family. The thrills continue to the very end with no clear resolution to where the danger lies, who can be trusted.

The book embraces loss, grief and one’s mortality. The narrative probes the decisions we take in the cause of career, the stresses of work and the integrity we bring to the job and in our relationships. Above all it is about character; the value of friendship and where trust is placed and rewarded. The wisdom of Hamish lives long after the final page as will be the reader’s appreciation for this accomplished and now sadly missed author.

A fitting finale in this series. A true valedictory and lasting tribute to a fine teller of tales, a much loved writer.

Particularly Poignant..
The twelfth and final outing in the DCI Daley series. Daley is arrested and charged with murder and police have enough evidence to incarcerate him for life - yet, Scott still believes in his innocence. How so? The search for answers and for justice will take its toll on all. With a credible and well crafted cast populating a propulsive plot and a narrative laced with dry and wry humour, this is a worthy finale to a stellar series.

I shall miss being transported back to my former "Kinloch" stomping ground via the pen and imagination of my good friend Denzil. The prophetic title of the book suggests he knew this was the final adventure for Jim, Brian et al and WHAT AN ADVENTURE IT IS!
We are led through more twists than twelve games of Twister and each one seems blindingly obvious once revealed!
Laughs? Always!
Tragedies? Definitely!
Enjoyment? Undoubtedly!
Gripping? Absolutely!
Like all Denzil's books, once picked up, unputdownable!
Released three months after the sad passing of the author in February, I am unashamed to say I was in floods of tears in the final chapter and will miss Brian's hilarious patter as I raise some Whisky From a Small Glass to an absent friend!

Gritty thriller set in Scotland and London,with some interesting characters and plenty of surprising twists and turns.

This is an action packed (and sometimes grue) police procedural, which kept me guessing right till the end. Who can be trusted? It does not make police work sound like a good career - far too dangerous ! Although part of a series, it can be read as a standalone book.

A Fit Up with a fitting end

So many superlatives would encompass this book, particularly if you have followed the series from beginning to end. As ever in life “believing” and “proving” is quite a process and nowhere is it more apparent than in this novel which has shades of George Orwell about it. A cracking read which draws you in and holds you to the very last page..

Denzil Meyrick is among the best of this century's crime writers, and his DCI Daley series has been consistently excellent. It is sad to think that this is Meyrick's swansong, following his recent death. However, this is a superb novel and among the best in the series, well written and with a gripping plot.

Things are changing in Kinloch. Jim has been promoted and is set to move to a job on the mainland and Brian will be moving into his old role. Liz, Jim's wife, is not happy as usual. To pacify her Jim is taking her to London so she can do some shopping and enjoy city life for a few days. When Hamish tells him that he has had a premonition that something bad will happen in London, he doesn't tell Liz, not wishing to upset her and they go anyway. Liz, however, has other reasons for wanting to be in London.
When Brian gets a phone call in the dead of the night from Jim saying that he has killed Liz, all hell is let loose and he heads down to the smoke to try and make sense of things.
Not knowing who to trust, even his old schoolfriend, Brian has to keep his wits about him and hope that Jim will be proved innocent.
A page turner with plenty of twists and turns along the way.
I loved it.

This is the first book in the DCI Daley series that I have read but it is a good standalone. The story is fast paced ,a gripping mystery with several strands to the plot .Set in Scotland and London the characters are engaging and the ending was very surprising. Sadly this is the last in the series as Denzil MeyRick died earlier this year but I would say this book is a fitting end for what must have been an excellent series. Thank you to NetGalley for my ARC.

Last Orders
Firstly I’d like to say that it’s an honour to have been provided an ARC for this book which has been published posthumously following Denzil Meyricks passing earlier this year.

Denzil was at the top of the crime procedural writing game and this book is no exception. His insight into the mind of a detective is brilliant and the setting is so atmospheric. This is a fitting end to this series.

A very poignant goodbye

Thank you Random House UK for the arc of last orders
The book is about crime thriller and last book we see of DCI Jim Daley I loved I couldn’t put it down it gripped me from the get go, it was fast paced lots of twist and turns I didn’t want it to end 5 stars another great book of Denzil

Also I’m so sad as end of book I found the author Denzil Meyrick has passed away a couple of months ago i started reading his books last year loved them all

The novel opens with a funeral and this seems so tragic and pertinent when you know that this is Meyrick’s final tale of Kinloch. This book is a worthy tribute to the late author’s exceptional writing. I have followed the lives and crime investigations of Jim Daley and Brian Scott throughout the Kinloch series and this book sees their friendship at its strongest as Daley is accused of murder after CCTV footage puts him at the scene of the crime. Scott immediately starts to look for answers in order to prove his friend’s innocence.
Meyrick does not shy away from some brutal scenes and skilfully leads both detectives to question if they can trust anyone at all. Readers will find themselves suspecting one person after another which makes for a gripping, thriller that is hard to put down.

Highly recommended along with all Meyrick’s previous novels and novellas.
Thank you very much to the publishers for the ARC.

Sadly, this marks the end of a fantastic series following Denzil's passing. However, this book delivers a fast-paced plot packed with twists and turns in every chapter. Right from the start, Denzil grabs our attention by hinting at a character's possible death, setting the tone for the story. While it begins in the familiar Kinloch setting, events quickly shift to London, where tragedy unfolds. In the dead of night, Brian Scott is jolted awake by his buzzing phone. It's a chilling message from his old friend Jim Daley: ‘She’s dead, Brian. I couldn’t take it anymore – I killed her! You have to help.’ When a woman’s body is discovered, the nightmare escalates as Daley is arrested for murder. Convinced of his innocence, Scott sets out to uncover who is framing him. Their search for the truth takes Jim and Brian on a dark journey into their past, placing them and their loved ones in grave danger.

As with any good thriller, there are plenty of red herrings and untrustworthy characters, but Brian Scott’s humour provides a much-needed balance to the otherwise dark narrative. While it’s heartbreaking that this series has come to an end, the quality of the writing ensures it concludes on a high note. If you haven’t read this series yet, you’re in for a treat. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an advanced copy.

This is a series I have loved, starting it after only a couple of books had been published, and this was to be the last offering. I must confess to shedding the odd tear too. There is a poignancy but mainly it is so wonderfully warm and funny, what a perfect way to sign off. No melancholy or sadness, just a feeling of contentment.

Jim Daley has accepted a promotion that will take him away from Kinloch, much to the chagrin of his contrarian wife Liz, who has just settled into life there. Jim agrees to a short trip away to her favourite place London, one with a touch of the make or break about it, for the sake of their marriage. Old Hamish has had bad dreams, he’s getting premonitions, bad omens and tries to persuade Daley not to go as no good will come of it.
It turns out Hamish is not the fool some make him out to be. Liz has been murdered, and Jim is the only suspect, with compelling evidence, and has been arrested. As readers of the series will attest, theirs has never been a smooth relationship, with Liz being flighty in the past, he she finally pushed Jim too far once too often.

Jim is known as ‘big man’ he can handle danger but introducing legal jeopardy the author cleverly puts him in the one position he cannot fight back. This also sidelines him for much of the story allowing some of the regular characters more time in the limelight. It falls to soon to be DI, DS Brian Scott the man who Jim has stood by so many times, through thick and thin (but mainly the latter) to fight his corner.

The plot revolves around did Jim murder Liz or has he been ‘fitted up’ with the evidence suggesting no other suspects. If it is the latter then Scott must discredit the evidence, something that he will need help with. Scott knows one senior officer in the Met; he went to school with him and training college before their careers went on different trajectories. He helps and back in Kinloch a new officer proves most useful, but all the time unseen forces appear to be at work. Here some great mistrust and paranoia is introduced by the author, so not only is Brian off his patch with no real jurisdiction, but he also doesn’t know who he can trust. It then becomes high risk with some real excitement and danger.

Back in Kinloch there is some unnatural interest in Jim jnr. who is being looked after by Brian’s long suffering wife Ella. Ella and Hamish end up forming the most unlikely of alliances to keep the young lad safe. This diversion away from the main action is simply brilliant. They have their own share of jeopardy to contend with, without physical strength on their side, which they manage with some aplomb and much hilarity. Giving these two characters so much space is perhaps the best bit of the novel, their interactions as a bickering odd couple gradually become mutual respect and understanding. This process is so funny; the dialogue is wonderful and how the community pitch in with help brings shades of the great Ealing Comedies of the past. Underneath it all they have much in common, care and compassion for those around them.

In London it comes to a frantic finale that is both thrilling and well thought out. It all leads back to events from the past which are foreshadowed, but not in the reader might have expected. To get there, expect chases, gun shots, brief explosions of violence and a nice little trap being laid.

It tugs at the heartstrings but ultimately it is an absolute joy.

I would like to thank Net Galley and the publisher for access to a copy in exchange for a fair review.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the early access to this wonderful book. Thank you and heartfelt gratitude to Denzil Meyrick for sharing his remarkable talent with us. Last Orders is a fitting and poignant conclusion to Denzil Meyrick’s series featuring DCI Jim Daley, I didn't want it to end as I poured through the pages. It is fast paced, gripping and suspenseful, hooking you in from the outset. Meyrick perfectly describes the colourful characters and settings bringing so much emotion to the read. I was taken on a real journey from beginning to end.

This I believe is the final book in the series. I have read another book by this author which I did enjoy very much.

I would say that although it’s part of a series, it does stand alone although knowing background relationships is always useful, it really doesn’t hamper the story.

I really enjoyed this book, it’s very dark and has a lot of plot going for it, with a lot of surprises…

My thanks to Netgalley and Transworld, Penguin Random House for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

It was with a heavy heart that I began reading this one, following the recent death of Denzil Meyrick.

In this twelfth book in the DCI Daley series, the characters push on with their lives; investigating crime and dealing with whatever comes their way. The author's trademark humour abounds - he made me laugh, he made me cry and this is and absolute belter of a read, quite possibly the very best of the series.

Denzil Meyrick's writing talent is such a loss, but I also had the good luck to chat with him on social media one day and he was a thoroughly nice man. He will be missed, and not just for his books. A clear five star novel, and very highly recommended, as is this whole series.

My thanks to the publisher for my copy via NetGalley.