Alex Gray Books in Order
Alex Gray has written 23 books, published between 2002 and 2025. The first book is Never Somewhere Else (2002) and the newest is Acts of Malice (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 23
- Published
- 2002–2025
- Confirmed
- 22 of 23 titles
- Pages on record
- 6,393 in 16 of 23 books
- Reading time
- 107–160 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,393 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 23 titles with a page count on record.
Alex Gray is a Scottish crime writer. The Detective Lorimer novels make up the catalogue, setting Detective Chief Inspector William Lorimer and the psychological profiler Solomon Brightman on murder and serial killings around Glasgow. Gray has also published magazine articles, poetry, short stories and pieces for BBC radio schools programmes. The catalogue lists 23 titles dated 2002 to 2025, opening with Never Somewhere Else (2002) and continuing through The Riverman (2007), Glasgow Kiss (2009), Five Ways to Kill a Man (2010) and The Swedish Girl (2013). Acts of Malice is dated 2025.
How many Alex Gray books are there?
Alex Gray has 23 books, released between 2002 and 2025.
Alex Gray Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 23 Alex Gray books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 120023843/4
- 220042563/4
- 320052883/4
- 420074323/4
- 520084483/4
- 620094323/4
- 720104193/4
- 82011–3/4
- 92012–3/4
- 1020133553/4
- 1120144853/4
- 122015–2/4
- 1320154563/4
- 1420164543/4
- 1520174003/4
- 162018–3/4
- 1720194003/4
- 1820203843/4
- 1920214003/4
- 2020224003/4
- 212023–3/4
- 222024–3/4
- 232025–3/4
Alex Gray characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Lorimer & Brightman books in order 23 books
Alex Gray books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Detective Lorimer in order
23 books- 1. Never Somewhere Else
- 2. A Small Weeping
- 3. Shadows of Sounds
- 4. The Riverman
- 5. Pitch Black
- 6. Glasgow Kiss
- 7. Five Ways to Kill a Man
- 8. Sleep Like the Dead
- 9. A Pound Of Flesh
- 10. The Swedish Girl
- 11. The Bird That Did Not Sing / The Silent Games
- 12. The Bank Job
- and 11 more in the table above
Alex Gray Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Alex Gray books run from Never Somewhere Else (2002) to Acts of Malice (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Alex Gray in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Alex Gray books in order?
You only need to read Alex Gray books in order within the Detective Lorimer series, which holds 23 of the 23 Alex Gray books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Alex Gray
Start with Never Somewhere Else (2002), the first Lorimer & Brightman book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Alex Gray book?
Acts of Malice (2025) is the newest Alex Gray book released so far.
Is there a new Alex Gray book coming?
No next Alex Gray book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Alex Gray at a glance
- Still publishing
- Alex Gray published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Alex Gray books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 6,393 pages across the 16 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Alex Gray books, 11 of 23, were published in the 2010s.
What the Alex Gray books are about
18 of the 23 Alex Gray books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: scotland is tagged on 11 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Scotland 11 of 18 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 10 of 18 books
- Police 10 of 18 books
- Psychologists 8 of 18 books
- Mystery & detective 6 of 18 books
- Crime 5 of 18 books
- Investigation 5 of 18 books
- Murder 4 of 18 books
- Serial murders 4 of 18 books
- Solomon Brightman (Fictitious character) 3 of 18 books
- Crimes against 2 of 18 books
- English literature 2 of 18 books