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Crime by Irvine Welsh
“Crime” is a departure in other ways as well. Though it might be loosely considered a sequel to the frightening, hilarious “Filth,” Welsh’s 1998 novel about a corrupt Edinburgh polisman, “Crime” is set in Miami — a place as far removed as possible from the sordid, infernal city that Welsh’s fiction has mapped in such loving detail. Detective Inspector Raymond Lennox, who was described in “Filth” (where he was a secondary character) as “the worst kind of loser,” has just solved a rape-torture-murder case involving a 7-year-old girl named Britney Hamil. This particular crime affects Lennox deeply, for biographical reasons that are gradually revealed through a series of flashbacks. Breaking from noir convention, Welsh’s detective is not fixated on a case unsolved or botched; Lennox’s investigation is successful and he has put away the murderer, but he remains obsessed by the enormity of the criminal act. “His thoughts are like a landslide,” Welsh writes. “They seem to subside and settle, then before he knows it they’re off again, heading for the same downhill destination. The crime. Always plummeting inexorably towards the crime.”
Book Review – ‘Crime,’ by Irvine Welsh – Review – NYTimes.com.
This sounds very interesting. Although, I’ll have to read Filth first. Welsh really is one of those authors that just has a way with words, its a cliche, but its true!