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Crime
The CRIME series (Related to this series)
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- Narrator
- Tam Dean Burn Burn
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 18 November 2021
- Run Time
- 14 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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** Now a major Britbox TV show **
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a harrowing child-sex murder case back in Edinburgh.
But his fiancée Trudi is only interested in planning their wedding, and soon Lennox cast adrift, alone in Florida. A coke-fuelled binge brings him into contact with another victim of sexual predation, ten-year-old Tianna, and Lennox flees across the state with his terrified charge, determined to protect her at any cost. But can Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he handle Tianna, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder?
© Irvine Welsh 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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A triumph... A great, redemptive book... It leaves you wanting more, much more
Observer
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Powerful, passionate writing... Welsh gets it just right
Literary Review
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Powerful... A bracing and engaging read
Daily Telegraph
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Crime is by some distance Welsh's most restrained and thoughtful work
The Times
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You never know what you're going to get with Irvine Welsh, other than guaranteed intelligence. But what you get here is a triumph. A brave take on paedophile rings and the minds, fast and slow, behind them... There are echoes of rebus, of Christopher Brookmyre, even of Carl Hiaasen... There's only one Welsh and you should be reading him again
Observer
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A disturbing but vital read
Harper's Bazaar
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An anti-Lolita; a cleverly updated view of those who protect children and those who prey on them. It also works as a slick, fast-paced thriller with a surprisingly coherent and engaging hero
Big Issue
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There's a stark immediacy to his prose...frenetically paced thriller
Daily Mail
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Running jokes and consciously ludicrous moments come thick and fast
Guardian
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The taut dialogue buzzes with snappy ventriloquism. Welsh is one of our most interesting writers on the minutiae of human consciousness
Sunday Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- Narrator
- Tam Dean Burn Burn
- Duration
- 14 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 November 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529194067
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.** Now a major Britbox TV show **Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a harrowing child-sex murder case back in Edinburgh. But his fiancée Trudi is only interested in planning their wedding, and soon Lennox cast adrift, alone in Florida. A coke-fuelled binge brings him into contact with another victim of sexual predation, ten-year-old Tianna, and Lennox flees across the state with his terrified charge, determined to protect her at any cost. But can Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he handle Tianna, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder?© Irvine Welsh 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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