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Crime 
Author(s) Irvine Welsh Country Scotland Language English Genre(s) Novel Publication date 2008 Media type Print (Hardback and paperback) Pages 352 pp ISBN 0-224-08053-9 Preceded by Filth Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, Filth.
Plot summary
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by stress and taking drugs, and a child murder case back home in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida his fiancée, Trudi, is only interested in planning their wedding and, after an argument, abandons Lennox in a bar.
He meets two women in a bar and goes back to their place to have a cocaine binge, but they are interrupted by two strangers. After a fight Lennox is left in the apartment with Tianna, the 10-year-old daughter of one of the women.
Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina where he walks right into a hornets' nest of paeodophiles, just like the one that had haunted him on a similar case in Edinburgh. Now he must protect the girl from them at all costs.
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References
Works by Irvine Welsh Novels Trainspotting (1993) · Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995) · Filth (1998) · Glue (2001) · Porno (2002) · The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006) · Crime (2008) ·
Short story collections The Acid House (1994) · Ecstasy (1996) · If You Liked School You'll Love Work (2007) · Reheated Cabbage (2009)
Plays You'll Have Had Your Hole (1998) · Dose (1998)
Screenplays The Acid House (1998) · Wedding Belles (2007)
Categories:- 2008 novels
- Novels by Irvine Welsh
- Crime novels
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