Crime (novel)
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| Author | Irvine Welsh |
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| Sprache | Englisch |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 2008 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 352 pp |
| 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 fiancee, Trudi, is only interested in planning their wedding and, after an argument, abandons Lennox in a mall.
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 country to an exclusive marina where he walks right into a hornet's 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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