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    A Small Weeping: The compelling Glasgow crime series
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    A Small Weeping: The compelling Glasgow crime series

    By Alex Gray

    3.5/5

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    ***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series***

    Whether you've read them all or whether this is your first Lorimer novel, THE DARKEST GOODBYE is perfect if you love Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves


    WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE LORIMER SERIES:

    Warm-hearted, atmospheric' ANN CLEEVES
    'Relentless and intriguing' PETER MAY
    'Move over Rebus' DAILY MAIL
    'Exciting, pacey, authentic' ANGELA MARSONS
    'Superior writing' THE TIMES
    'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
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    When a murdered prostitute is found in a Glasgow train station, DCI Lorimer is perplexed by the ritualistic arrangement of her body. It isn't long before there is another murder and he realises there's no time to waste if he is to stop Glasgow's latest serial killer.


    A taut, suspense-filled thriller, A Small Weeping takes the reader on a gripping journey from the inner city to the wilds of the Scottish Isles, and far into the darkest depths of human nature.
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    ***PRAISE FOR ALEX GRAY***

    'Convincing Glaswegian atmosphere and superior writing' The Times

    'Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Rankin evokes Edinburgh' Daily Mail

    'Exciting, pacy, authentic' Angela Marsons

    'Sums up everything that is golden and enthralling about a good book' Fully Booked

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateJan 31, 2011
    ISBN9780749009137
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    A Small Weeping: The compelling Glasgow crime series
    Author

    Alex Gray

    Alex Gray was born and educated in Glasgow. After studying English and Philosophy at the University of Strathclyde, she worked as a visiting officer for the Department of Health, a time she looks upon as postgraduate education since it proved a rich source of character studies. She then trained as a secondary school teacher of English.    Alex began writing professionally in 1993 and had immediate success with short stories, articles, and commissions for BBC radio programs. She has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers’ Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her crime writing.    A regular on the Scottish bestseller lists, she is the author of thirteen DCI Lorimer novels. She is the co-founder of the international Scottish crime writing festival, Bloody Scotland, which had its inaugural year in 2012.   http://www.alex-gray.com/

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    • 5/5
      Clicked with this right from the start but needed a slight prompt to keep it on track. 4 murders, brief narratives from the guilty party/ies . Kept you guessing and got a bit bewildering but she explained everything. Built characters you could identify with and evokes the setting without getting tiresome. Loved it and want to read more.
    • 3/5
      This is my first foray in Alex Gray's writing. I am exploring the tartan noir genre of mysteries, after having been completely seduced by Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus series. This is what happens to people who runs out of Rebus to read and is jonesing to read more and can't wait for Rankin to churn a new book out. I was attracted to Inspector Lorimer because I am just a slight bit more familiar with Glasgow than I am with Edinburgh. Glasgow seem to be familiar territory as I had spent a wee bit of time there. This particular book started out promising enough. The story is being told in a number of voices representing a number of characters. Alex Gray followed the rules of good mysteries by introducing all the characters early, and not fall into the trap of introducing the antagonist at the very end, in order to bail herself out of a situation. A Small Weeping stood on its own, but just barely. A number of characters were introduced, Maggie, Lorimer's long suffering wife, the exchange detective from Florida, and a number of other police personnel as head fakes, people to distract the reader from the main plot. Which I believe is a problem, and I think Gray knew it as well. It wasn't that the plot was not believable, it was just not very well fleshed out. The plotting was thought out but the details of smoothly leading the reader through the plot was not very well done. Obviously it was well done enough to keep me reading, but I felt like I was being jerked around a bit by the author. There were many sudden shifts and surprises along the way, each was better developed than the previous, which showed that the author was working her way through her difficulties.In the end, it was a fine ending and gave me very nice head fake. So it wasn't a total exercise in frustration. I believe I will go on and read another Alex Gray mystery, but not quite yet. Too many other better books to read.
    • 5/5
      Good series with police inspector, his physchologist friend and their wives and other sundry characters
    • 4/5
      My first Alex Gray and DCI Lorimer book. Overall I found the plotting and characters worked well and encouraged me to read further stories by this author. In this story, two young women from very different backgrounds are murdered and a carnation is placed in their cupped hands after death. Does Glasgow have a serial killer at loose and what is the connection between the victims?
    • 4/5
      A Small Weeping by Alex Grey is the second book in her police procedural series set in Glasgow, Scotland. This book opens with a murdered prostitute found in a Glasgow train station. The main character DCI Lorimer and his team are investigating this murder when a second one occurs this one a young nurse in a care home. Both bodies are arranged in an identical ritualistic manner yet Lorimer’s psychiatric profiler Dr. Solomon Brightman isn’t convinced they are hunting for only one murderer.This was an interesting procedural that is set in Glasgow but includes a side trip to the island of Lewis. Lorimer and Brightman make an interesting team. Lorimer is extremely immersed in his job which doesn’t leave much time for a private life, and in this book, we learn more about his wife and how she copes with such an absent husband. Brightman is getting involved in a relationship with Dr. Rosie Fergusson, a forensic pathologist. These relationships help to gather the reader’s interest in the lives of these characters but the author doesn’t skimp on the dark side and delivers a gripping suspenseful story.