Alex Gray (author)

Alex Gray (born Sandra Gray Lang)[1][2] was brought up in the Craigbank area of Glasgow and attended Hutchesons' Grammar School. Her father was a telecommunications engineer and her mother, originally from Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, was a telephone exchange operator. She studied English and Philosophy[3] at Strathclyde University and was a founding member of Battlefield Band.[4] She worked for a period in the Department of Health & Social Security,[5] before training as an English teacher. In 1976, she lived in Rhodesia for three months, during which time she married.[6] Thereafter, she continued teaching in Scotland until the 1990s, when she began to write full-time. Gray is a member of the Femmes Fatales crime writing trio, together with Alanna Knight and Lin Anderson. She is the co-founder with Anderson of Bloody Scotland, Scotland's first international crime writing festival, which takes place in Stirling.[2] Gray has two children and two grandchildren;[7] she lives with her husband in Renfrewshire.

Gray has published 19 novels in the Lorimer series.

• Never Somewhere Else (2002)
• A Small Weeping (2004)
• Shadows of Sounds (2005)
• The Riverman (2007)
• Pitch Black (2008)
• Glasgow Kiss (2009)
• Five Ways To Kill A Man (2010)
• Sleep like the Dead (2011)
• A Pound of Flesh (2012)
• The Swedish Girl (2013)
• The Bird That Did Not Sing (2014)
• Keep The Midnight Out (2015)
• The Darkest Goodbye (2016)
• Still Dark (2017)
• Only the Dead Can Tell (2018)
• The Stalker (2019)
• When Shadows Fall (2020)
• ‘’Before the Storm’’ (2021)
• ‘’Echo of the Dead’’ (2022)

• Author's website in Fantastic Fiction
• Radio interview (2009)
• Femmes Fatales website