The Swedish Girl: Book 10 in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series
By (Author) Alex Gray
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
10th December 2013
5th December 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
480
Width 125mm, Height 197mm, Spine 31mm
330g
When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson she can't believe her luck. But Kirsty's delight turns to terror when she finds the beautiful Swedish girl lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty and, inspired by family friend Detective Superintendent Lorimer, sets out to clear his name.
Meanwhile, Lorimer calls on trusted psychologist Solly Brightman to help unravel the truth behind the enigmatic Eva's life and death. But it is not long until another woman, bearing a marked resemblance to Eva, is brutally murdered. Horrified, Lorimer realises that Kirsty could be right. Is it possible that Glasgow's finest detective has put the wrong man behind bars And is there a cold-blooded killer out there orchestrating the death of the next innocent victimIn this gripping read, Alex Gray sends her dynamic Scottish detective from the gritty heart of Glasgow to the snowy streets of Stockholm in his toughest case yet.Gray is the new master of Scottish crime writing. - Scottish Daily Express
Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Ian Rankin evokes Edinburgh. - Daily MailAlex Gray was born and educated in Glasgow. She has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers' Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her crime writing and is the co-founder of the Bloody Scotland international crime writing festival. Married with a son and daughter, she lives in Scotland and is currently writing the next book in the Detective Lorimer series. www.alex-gray.com