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The Silent Games: A DCI Lorimer Novel
The Silent Games: A DCI Lorimer Novel
The Silent Games: A DCI Lorimer Novel
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The Silent Games: A DCI Lorimer Novel

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They stole her voice. Now they want her dead . . .

2014: The Commonwealth Games are coming to Glasgow and security is extra tight, particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in a nearby rural area. As the opening ceremony for the Games draws ever closer, the police desperately seek the culprits. But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has other concerns on his mind. One is a beautiful red-haired woman from his past whose husband dies suddenly on his watch. Then there is the body of a young woman found dumped in the countryside just south of the city who is proving impossible to identify.

Elsewhere in Glasgow people prepare for the events in their own way, whether for financial gain or to welcome visitors from overseas. And, hiding behind false identities, are those who pose a terrible threat not just to the Games but to the very fabric of society. Can Lorimer root them out before Britain is forever changed?

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateMar 13, 2018
ISBN9780062659262
The Silent Games: A DCI Lorimer Novel
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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    Superintendent Bill Lorimer is tasked with being one of those heading security for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 after an explosion at Drymen which is suspected to be a dry run for terrorists. At the same time he attends a school reunion at the behest of an old flame which leads him into dangerous waters which have a surprising resonance with his security responsibilities and suspected people trafficking. Good evocation of real Glasgow and Scottish locations allied to strong police procedural detail.

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