Alex Gray

(born 1951 - ) - Glasgow

Alex Gray

Alex Gray was born and raised in Glasgow. After brief jobs as a folk singer and a visiting officer for the DSS, she taught English for ten years. She retired from teaching in 1992 due to illness, and became a full-time novelist. Her first novel, Never Somewhere Else, introduced her character of DCI Lorimer and was published in 2003. She has since written three other crime novels, all set in Glasgow.

Gray has won the Scottish Association of Writers Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her novels.

She is a member of Femmes Fatales, alongside fellow crime writers Alanna Knight and Lin Anderson.

  • Cover scan of Never Somewhere Else
    Never Somewhere Else
    When a series of young women are discovered strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow park, it is up to DCI Lorimer to find their killer.
  • Cover scan of Pitch Black
    Pitch Black
    When Chief Inspector Lorimer returns from his holiday on the island of Mull, he feels a welcome sense of calm. But it doesn't last long. Kelvin FC's new midfielder is found brutally stabbed to death in his own home and, with his wife apprehended trying to leave the country, a seemingly straightforward new case begins.
  • Cover scan of The Riverman
    The Riverman
    When the dead body of a man is fished out of Glasgow's River Clyde the morning after an office celebration, it looks like a case of accidental death. An anonymous telephone call and a forensic toxicology test, however, give DCI Lorimer reason to think otherwise.
  • Cover scan of Shadows Of Sounds
    Shadows Of Sounds
    The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know they are set to be outplayed by the sequence of events happening backstage.
  • Cover scan of A Small Weeping
    A Small Weeping
    The body of a prostitute is discovered in a Glasgow station, sparking a murder hunt that focuses on the city's seamier side. But when the body of a nurse is found dead in a private clinic, with her corpse positioned in an identical way to that of the first victim, DCI Lorimer must decide if this is the work of a serial killer.

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