not my favourite so far ( )

Pitch Black is the second book I have read in this series and, despite my lack of interest for sports do I like the series. And, I think that the books, despite being part of a series, are easy to get into even if you haven't read the previous books.

This book would probably have been a lot more fun to read if I had liked football. But, sports of any kind is just not my thing. Fortunately, the case is interesting enough, even if I have to admit that I sometimes struggled with the story, especially during whenever there is a match going on in the story. On the plus side were the side stories, a stray kitten found by Lorimer's wife and a tragic car accident that one of the characters is in involved in interesting enough to counterweight the matches.

The book starts off with the wife of a football player being arrested for the murder of him. But, is she really guilty? She isn't saying anything to her defense, but there is no physical evidence to bind her to the crime. But, he was found in a locked house that's not broken into and she is the only one besides the murdered man that has a key and she has no alibi. Then, a referee gets killed and that's just the start, could she be innocent and there is someone out there killing people connected to the Kelvin Football Club?

I did like the story in The Riverman better (the previous book), I found reading about football players just not that interesting, however, the story got a bit better when the killer started to pick them off one by one. But, what's the motive and who is it?

In the end, I have to say that the book is OK, much thanks to the side stories, and the fact that I like the characters. The case was not altogether bad, but it will probably appeal more to football fans than to someone that basically allergic to it...;) ( )

I love the DCI Loimer's serie very much. It's not only that he and his team have to solve a puzzle but also his private life gets enough room. It makes him so human.
In this case some players, a referee and a journalist were murdered. Will someone bring Glasgow's football club Kelvin to fall? DCI Lorimer was on his way back from his holiday when he met the first victim's wife on a ferry. Henceforward his investigations take him deeper into the football scene with all its corruption, jealousy and hope.
It was a very gripping reading and it kept me guessing until the very last page who the evil one was. ( )

Like I already said in a status update, I liked the book when regarding it as a detective novel. The contents was just too much football to me. A person who doesn't like that game all too much and who doesn't really understand the depth f the feelings towards a particular club or team.

The part with wich the book started, the battered female wo did / did not kill her husband was, in my opinion, underrated. It was the teaser that kept me reading at firstand it kind of made me sad that this line was only 'explained' in the afterword, not in the book itself. ( )