Product Description

Eric Chalmers is one of the most popular teachers at Muirpark Secondary School in Glasgow. Gentle and kind, he is the person the students come to when they want to confide in someone. So when precocious teenager Julie Donaldson accuses Chalmers of rape, the school goes into shock. How could a deeply religious family man like Chalmers do anything like that? With some students and teachers supporting Julie, and others standing by Chalmers, life at Muirpark is far from harmonious. And then things get much worse - Julie Donaldson goes missing, and the police are called in. For DCI William Lorimer, this is the second missing persons case in a week. He's been having sleepless nights about a toddler who has been missing for several days - with each day, the likelihood of her being found alive diminishes. Julie's disappearance adds a further burden to Lorimer's already overstretched workload. With hope fading, it becomes a breakneck race against time to find both missing girls.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #277234 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

About the Author
Alex 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 Scottish Chapter convenor for the Crime Writers' Association. Married with a son and daughter, she now writes full time.

Customer Reviews

A great detective series continues..
Loving this not so well known series. Based in Glasgow. DCI Lorimer is back, with his wife Maggie more involved. In fact, Maggie is a school teacher and one of the teachers in her school is accused of rape, he is one of the most popular and well liked teachers. Then a pupil is murdered and Maggie wants to know more. When DCI Lorimer is assigned the case the question is asked whether there is a conflict of interest?
Always well written and really enjoy the main character, he is portrayed well and is level headed in his thoughts not immediately assuming someone innocent or guilty, we also see the more private husband side of the policeman through the series, and how his wife deals with his job, and this brings a nice balance to the book.
Recommend this to all.

Glasgow Kiss
Wonderfully written. Brings Glasgow to life,obviously well researched, and the plot never wavers, just keeps on running till the end. The blurb likens Alex to Ian Rankine, and how true.

It was good until ...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book until it got near the end. I might have missed something but I thought this was a who-dun-it and in the end we didn't even know who-dun-it. Very disappointing.