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Crime

By: Irvine Welsh
Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
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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 is cast adrift, alone in Florida. A coke-fuelled binge brings him into contact with another victim of sexual predation, 10-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?

©2008 Irvine Welsh (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Difficult storyline, well written

Although the storyline is very harrowing, the writing is excellent, making it easier to bear. it was brilliantly narrated.

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Worth a listen

Enjoyed this book, great hard hitting storyline and Welsh is a master at creating complex characters like Lennox. I have to say though, the American accent (particularly female characters) by the narrator is awful and I had to fight the urge to stop listening as it’s so distracting.

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Fantastic

Another absolutely stunning book from Mr Welsh,dark but funny and ultimately uplifting and brilliant performance from Mr Burn👏

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Pretty bleak

This was fairly engaging but Ray Lennox is one troubled soul and so the journey isn’t much fun. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have gone through what he did as a kid, but it doesn’t make for anything other than a pretty break and brutal approach, lacking in the interpersonal japery in books like Trainspotting and so on. I needed a switch to some lighter chat after this…

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Listen (if you think you're hard enough)

This is a grim tale of a cop with a dark past he cannot outrun as he obsessively tries to compensate for his own perceived failures. If you like your fiction to be relentlessly harrowing and grimy this will be for you.

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Outstanding narration

I have listened to 4 books now, read by Tam Dean Burn, and he is easily among my very favourite narrators. I can't quite put in to words how much I admire his work in these Irvine Welsh books. The anger, the tears, the intensity, are all so believable. The writing is so good too. Irvine's grasp of character definition is incredible. I can only imagine how he manages to make us understand these people in such depth.

I haven't seen the TV series of this yet, but I'm compelled to give it a go, once I've listened to the next book in the series.

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Intense & gripping

Another fantastic book in IW collection. Very intriguing and I just wanted to keep listening. 10/10

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slow burner

Love Irvine Walsh .
This was a wonderfully crafted tale. The narrator was immense , when Ray is talking to himself is spellbinding.
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Nearly crashed my van laughing.
Great book!

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Another gem from the master

Excellent book if your a fan and if your not a fan of IW then I urge you to give it a go. The best narrator on audible couples the story with passion and realism.

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Relentlessly grim but totally compelling

It took about an hour to get used to the narration, which was theatrically overstated and made me listen to the voice rather than the book. However, when I got used to it, I thought that the other-worldliness of the tale, and the darkness of the situations benefitted from it. My first Welsh, although I've seen the Trainspotting films; and I kind of expected that there would be no punches pulled in the telling of a story with such a bleak setting. There weren't, which lent a gravitas to the book. Never felt prurient, but veiled nothing. A really good read/listen. Thought provoking.

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