Five Ways To Kill a Man
A DCI Lorimer Novel
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3.9 • 12 Ratings
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
DCI Lorimer must track down a malicious cutthroat inching closer to his own family in this atmospheric mystery from international bestselling author Alex Gray
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. When 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 find the answers.
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.
Customer Reviews
It was exciting but the plot twists were sort of predictable
It was exciting but the plot twists were sort of predictable
Five ways to kill a man
This story started out normally enough but after a while it became so boring I could not even finish it. The problem was, there were so many written descriptions about people, places and things that had absolutely nothing to do with the story.
It was a waste of time, and money, to read page after page after page of writing that was useless and unrelated to the story. I am in no way a professional literary critic, but as an average reader I found this book too boring to read all the way through. Sorry, but that is my opinion.