23 February 2023.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-8330-4 (HB)
The disappearance of a prominent MSP who was promoting a campaign to legalise drugs in Scotland is referred to Detective Superintendent William Lorimer, head of the Major Incident Team in Glasgow, with a high priority tag.
Lorimer’s relatively new friend PC Daniel Kohi is graduating from Police College. This sounds as though he is a new raw recruit, but Daniel, who was an Inspector in the Zimbabwe Police, escaped from a fire in his home which was meant to kill him. Daniel has now settled well in Scotland, following the death of his wife and son, and become friends with his elderly neighbour Netta Gordon, who is a pen friend of Daniel’s mother Janette, who still lives in Zimbabwe
Indulging in a fish supper from the local chippie, as Daniel steps out of the chippie his attention is caught by the sound of a crying baby, and investigating he discovers a baby lying in an alley beside his dead mother.
As the search for the missing
MSP intensifies. A car bomb explodes in a nearby village, and the blackened
body pulled from the wreckage appears to be that of the missing MSP Robert Truesdale's.
Yet there are details that don't add up, and soon Lorimer is questioning
whether the victim is Robert Truesdale.
So, if this isn’t Robert Truesdale where is he?
As the investigation progresses
more anomalies surface. For Daniel concerned with the death of the baby’s mother
from drugs, and the infiltration of Columbian drug dealers intend on taking
control of the drug criminal underworld in Glasgow, and for Lorimer seeking the
truth behind the missing MSP.
As far apart as these
events may appear to be, could there be a connection?
The characters are well-fleshed out and jumping off the page to tell their story.
Then Daniel went undercover, and it was heart in the mouth, as he became embroiled in a situation, I couldn’t see him surviving.
This is the 20th book in this highly acclaimed series, and it is good to meet up again with the Lorimers. Maggie Lorimer is still teaching as well as continuing to write children’s books. Although Maggie is secretly hoping that Bill will retire, so that they can take some time off together walking up the hills while he is still fit enough to do it. We also catch up with their friends the psychological profiler Solly Brightman and his wife Rosie.
Cleverly constructed, and intensely exciting with a nail biting
ending this tightly plotted story is a gripping read and keeps the reader guessing to the end, and is highly recommended
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Reviewer:
Lizzie Sirett
Alex Gray was born 27 May 1950,
Glasgow. She was brought up in the
Craigbank area of Glasgow and attended Hutchesons' Grammar School. She studied
English and Philosophy at Strathclyde University and worked for a period in the
Department of Health & Social Security before training as an English
teacher. In 1976 she lived in Rhodesia
for three months, during which time she got married, and she and her husband
returned to Scotland. She continued teaching until the 1990s, when she gave the
profession up and began to write full-time. Alex is a member of the Femmes
Fatales crime writing trio, together with Alanna Knight and Lin Anderson.
Her novels are all set around Glasgow and featuring the character of Detective Superintendent
Lorimer and his psychological profiler Solomon Brightman.
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