THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT: Detectives rush to stop a murder in this gripping thriller (DCI John Blizzard) - Softcover

Dean, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1804623024 ISBN 13: 9781804623022

Publisher: The Book Folks, 2025

Synopsis

Can DCI John Blizzard stop an ex-con from getting his cut?

When an elderly couple walk into Abbey Road Police Station and announce, with a certain nonchalance, that they’ll be murdered in the coming week, Detective John Blizzard has every reason to take them seriously.

Some twenty years earlier, they were subject to a brutal assault in their home, which they barely survived.

Enraged that he’d been diddled out of his rightful inheritance, their nephew Charlie Louden had decided to take the law, and a machete, into his own hands. Now he’s being considered for early release from prison.

Blizzard tries to put their fears to rest. Charlie is apparently a changed man. And surely the parole board would not make such a grave mistake.

Yet when a body is recovered following a warehouse fire, things begin to hot up in the industrial city of Hafton. Despite his assurances, inwardly Blizzard has a nagging feeling that matters are about to go south.

THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT is the twelfth standalone murder mystery by John Dean to feature stalwart crime-solver DCI John Blizzard. The full list of books is as follows:

1. THE LONG DEAD
2. STRANGE LITTLE GIRL
3. THE RAILWAY MAN
4. THE SECRETS MAN
5. A BREACH OF TRUST
6. DEATH LIST
7. A FLICKER IN THE NIGHT
8. THE LATCH MAN
9. NO AGE TO DIE
10. THE VENGEANCE MAN
11. THE NAME ON THE BULLET
12. THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT

Books 1-7 are available in a super-value box set, exclusive to Kindle! All of these books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback.

Look out for John Dean’s other long-running series about ex-army detective DCI Jack Harris.

About this title

About the Author

John Dean is a former journalist who worked on regional newspapers for 17 years before going freelance in 1997. As a freelance, he wrote for regional and national newspapers and for many magazines on subjects as diverse as crime, wildlife and business before retiring in March 2020 to concentrate on his crime fiction. He also runs creative writing courses. John lives in South West Scotland.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Book Folks
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1804623024
• ISBN 13: 9781804623022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210