Never Somewhere Else
by Alex Gray

Release Date: 5th Sep 2009
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978 0 7515 4291 2
RRP: £7.99

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The beginning of DCI Lorimer...

Originally published in 2002, Never Somewhere Else is the introductory novel to the latest Scottish Detective, DCI Lorimer. Whilst the discovery of DCI Lorimer goes on to be another success for Scottish crime, it is, in my opinion, Dr Solomon Brightman who steals the show.

A series of seemingly unprovoked and random attacks on women in Glasgow has the city on tender hooks and no one less so than DCI Lorimer. The blue-eyed policeman is determined to find the killer who has a particular fetish for scalping his female victims, but is less than convinced about the involvement of psychological profiler, Dr Solomon Brightman. As the death toll mounts ominously, however, Lorimer realises that he could do with all the help he can get before the killer really gets a taste for death...

Lorimer is true to policeman form: bulky frame, a bit gruff and having that something extra (in this case – startlingly blue eyes) that makes him the kind of rough and ready sort of man that women find attractive in an unconventional kind of way. Brightman, however, is a strange fish. Jewish, swarthy and having amongst his unusual accoutrements: a bushy, black beard – he is at wonderfully bizarre mix of boyish impishness and hypnotic intellectual. The plot is a tad predictable, but nonetheless enjoyable for it; and despite a particularly disjointed and jumpy start the book settles into a steady and even pace that will keep readers going. Never Somewhere Else is not a masterpiece, but rather, an indication of the writer’s potential.

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