Five Ways To Kill A Man
Book 7 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series***
***Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 22 in the Lorimer series, ACTS OF MALICE, is out now and Book 23, BLOOD ON OLD STONES, is available to pre-order.***
Whether you've read them all or whether this is your first Lorimer novel, FIVE WAYS TO KILL A MAN is perfect if you love Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE LORIMER SERIES:
'Warm-hearted, atmospheric' ANN CLEEVES
'Relentless and intriguing' PETER MAY
'Move over Rebus' DAILY MAIL
'Exciting, pacey, authentic' ANGELA MARSONS
'Superior writing' THE TIMES
'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
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The perfect murder takes practice.
An unpredictable killer is loose on the streets of Glasgow, experimenting with death. Beginning with brute force, the murderer moves on to poison and drowning, greedy for new and better ways to kill.
Faced with a string of unconnected victims, DCI Lorimer turns to psychologist and friend Solomon Brightman for his insights. Lorimer is also assigned to review the case of a fatal house fire. His suspicions are raised by shocking omissions in the original investigation. Some uncomfortable questions have been buried but Lorimer is the man to ask them.
As the serial killer gets closer to Lorimer's family, can the DCI unmask the volatile murderer before the next victim is found too close to home?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Scraps of a psychotic killer's pre-homicide musings alternate with jerkily amalgamated passages unveiling police angst, both public and private, in Gray's pedestrian seventh procedural featuring Glasgow police detective William Lorimer (after Glasgow Kiss). As the killer progresses through the senseless murder of one helpless old lady after another, Lorimer investigates the suspicious death by arson of financier Sir Ian Jackson, and classily fends off vamping advances by resentful Det. Insp. Rhoda Martin, who's after his job, while his wife, Maggie, struggles with her mum's stroke-related problems, which illuminate British socialized medicine. Gray tries too hard to flesh out her slim plot with one conventional device after another, and though she labors mightily to mask it in a crescendo of gory malice and some ham-fisted attempts at twisted psychological motivation, she telegraphs the killer's identity too soon, and pounds it home through the observations of Lorimer's profiler colleague, Dr. Solly Brightman.
