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Glasgow Kiss
by Alex Gray

Release Date: 5th Mar 2009
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978 1 8474 4194 2
RRP: £19.99

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An abducted child, a dead school girl and DCI Lorimer to solve the riddle of the crimes...

Maggie Lorimer is an English teacher at Muirpark secondary in Glasgow. She’s a good teacher, if somewhat more involved in her pupils’ wellbeing than is perhaps usual, but then, Maggie has no child of her own. When the head teacher collects the staff of Muirpark together to inform them officially that Kyle Kerrigan’s father has been released from prison, where he was sentenced for manslaughter, and that the staff are to keep a special eye on Kyle – Maggie is full of compassion. When a local youngster is abducted off the street near her home; it seems like the world has set its face against the area. But it is the abrupt disappearance of one of her pupils, Julie Donaldson, after a complaint of sexual assault was lodged against a fellow teacher, Mr Chalmers that Maggie feels as though her life as a school teacher has crossed some unseen line into the life she shares with her husband – DCI Lorimer.

Immediately up for suspicion is the RE teacher, Mr Chalmers. His gorgeous looks, inexplicable charm and magnetic personality could justifiably been used to lure an impressionable teenage girl to her death, especially after the serious accusation levelled at him prior to Julie’s disappearance and subsequent death. But the young Mr Chalmers is married and recently made a father for the first time; that coupled with his irrefutable religious disposition make it hard for Maggie to believe that he could possibly be guilty of either action. When it becomes apparent that Kyle Kerrigan was perhaps the last person to see Julie alive, attention turns to him; but could the potential championship-worthy boxer be capable of murder? Lorimer is left chasing down leads hard, but making little progress – and then another dead body is found.

Gray writes with a certain authenticity that brings to the fore her Scottish roots, which in turn makes her account of Glasgow and its inhabitants real. Where there is lack of suspense or “thrill factor”, Gray makes up for in spades with well defined and crystallised characterisation; my only disappointment being DCI Lorimer himself, who is decidedly plain and ordinary. However, Maggie, Kyle and Solomon Brightman are all wonderfully depicted characters that elicit sympathy, understanding and fascination in equal parts. Glasgow Kiss may not be DCI Lorimer at his best, but undoubtedly there is plenty of room for Gray’s talent.

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