Echo of the Dead: The gripping 19th installment of the Sunday Times bestselling DSI Lorimer series (DSI William Lorimer)

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Never Somewhere Else: Several women are dead. Someone strangled them before abandoning them in Glasgow Park for the public to discover. DCI Lorimer must find the killer. But the task is far from easy. The culprit is a vicious murderer who mutilated the victims.

A well written book. I found myself visualising this part of Scotland and it made me want to get on the next plane! I enjoyed the references to Glasgow because I lived there for a short time and that city has a special place in my heart :) I absolutely loved this book and I wish that I had read the preceding books, however, better late than never, right? It is always exciting to discover a new, for me, author :) The mountainous location and adverse weather conditions lead to a slower pace of investigation than if they were in the city. The vivid descriptions of the landscape, flora and fauna show that this is a very special place with a unique atmosphere. Echoes of the Glencoe Massacre of 1692 permeate the narrative. This is a small insular community where everyone knows their neighbour’s business, but a killer is hiding amongst them in plain sight. We get occasional glimpses into the mind of the killer without knowing their identity, so have information that the investigators don’t, but I still had no idea who they were. Lorimer’s team must work it out before any one else suffers the same fate. Anyway, murders have occurred in this beautiful part of the world and it is up to Lorimer and his team to figure out what has happened. And when a local girl goes missing as well, it ups the stakes considerably..... Interesting characters in this book, a red herring and I genuinely didn't know who the murderer was until the author revealed them. Five days after the first book was launched, my mum died. She had cancer and had been in hospital,” she said.However, it wasn’t until she signed with Little Brown that the author felt truly at home. Both Little Brown and Transworld wanted her, but Alex went with Little Brown because David Shelley, Allison and Busby’s former managing director, had jumped to Little Brown, and she liked him. Alex Gray Awards

Gray confesses her newest offering has a bit of a different flavour, but thinks that will make Lorimer’s fans love it even more. Electronic States and Optical Transitions in Semiconductor Heterostructures ( By: Fedor T. Vasko, Alex V. Kuznetsov) Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's Sunday Times bestselling Scottish detective series***Echo Of The Dead – featuring DSI Lorimer – is Gray’s 19th book, something she never even imagined when she first tried to get a publication deal. Alex thinks she was a late bloomer. She was 51 when she published her first novel. But the author also believes that her age enriched her stories. Publishers kept telling her that they were drawn to writers that had life experience. However, because she couldn’t teach during her illness, the author had begun to write. She started with short stories before joining a workshop and finally penning a novel.