Five Ways To Kill A Man: Book 7 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective s

This book was a good police procedural with a very unique plot--until the end of the book. The mystery genre generally requires the author to "play fair" with the reader. The crimes committed were cleverly done, there was some good misdirection in terms of suspects, then the author came up with a murderer who had not appeared in the book until the denouement. That is not "fair play". The book was good enough, however, that I would read another by this author.

Awaiting other purchases before reading.

This is the 7th in the DCI Lorimer series, but it was the first (and last) I decided to try. It is called "Five Ways to Kill a Man", and in the first 5 chapters the reader finds out the first, second, and third ways, with a cold killer in Glasgow taking lives in vastly different ways. I was intrigued to find out the other two ways, so I read on, only to realize at about page 100 that one of those ways is to bore a reader to death with pointless drivel like descriptions of the city of Glasgow, and nursing homes, and people drinking tea, some cop's wife's illness, people drinking more tea, and what birds are eating at the feeder...zzzzzzz, snore...I could take no more and put it down to read something good, so I'll never know the 5th way. Perhaps it is to slit one's own wrists if this is the only book in the house to read?

As a relative newcomer to Alex Gray I thought this was one of the best books I've read in ages. I'm Glaswegian but not local to the specific area so wasn't aware of the 'mistakes' in the locations. It was a great read and I read it over a couple of nights, always careful not to read too much in case I finished it too early - it's a long wait til the next one! I kind of sussed 'who done it' about three quarters of the way through. Great story and characters - please hurry and write another!

I read "Glasgow Kiss" and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the one featuring Lorimer & his wife Maggie that I decided to read next on my Kindle. I felt that some of the characters were just not as believable this time. The characters in "Glasgow Kiss" were in my humble opinion very rounded & much more believable. I just couldn't take the "baddie" seriously. The descriptions of the landscape are lovely and I enjoyed it but as you can tell not as much as the last one I read. Maybe I'll try one more?