A review by monty_reads
Crime by Irvine Welsh

3.0

It's always fun to watch a subversive, rabble-rousing author try something conventional. Here, Welsh gives us a sequel to his 1998 novel Filth. Where that one was a grungy, pitch-black tale about Scots policeman Ray Lennox (partially narrated by the tapeworm living in Lennox's intestine), Crime is a stripped-down thriller that finds Lennox on holiday in Miami, Florida. Haunted by pasts both recent and distant, Lennox's friendship with a young girl becomes a vehicle for revenge and redemption. Welsh's books have always been shot through with subtle lessons on morality; this time around it's more obvious but no less satisfying in its complexity.