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Crime: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 16526
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0393068196
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780393068191
ASIN: 0393068196
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
Irvine (Trainspotting) Welsh brings his brand of mayhem to the glitzed-out, drugs-and-danger state of Florida.
In the wake of a nasty child-murder case, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh PD has suffered a full-scale breakdown. He's been placed on leave for mental retuning and takes off for a few days of sun in Miami. From there, Crime becomes an unmistakably Welshian blend of the macabre and the psychologically astute, as Lennox faces a dwindling supply of antidepressants, a bridal-magazine-toting fiancee who wants him to think seriously about floral arrangements, and some coke-happy locals who lead him back into old habits. Is he really in the right shape to be playing knight-errant to a terrified ten-year-old girl? Will his best instincts and worst judgments get them both killed, or find him the redemption he seeks?
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 very good October 20, 2008
Welsh has long been one of my favorite authors. Crime is a great read. Yes the subject matter is pretty dark but nothing more extreme than a typical episode of CSI or Law and Order.
 Better than Chefs & School....but far from his best... October 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Irvine Welsh's penchant for shock/laughter/sex and drugs continues on in CRIME. A pastiche of characters (if you have read any of his other novels, then you've got the template for CRIME) that are all interlocked in fairly predictable way, this is a story that you highly have to suspend disbelief in how it plays out. Yes the topic is dark and well handled, but after reading CRIME, I feel a little robbed of depth, development and shock...no surprises here...
Certainly better than the disappointing "Bedroom Secrets..." & Short Story Collection "School...",
But I would recommend FILTH to a new reader, a much more fleshed out Crime/shock/laughter/sex and drugs ....Crime is just an after thought...
Welsh hits the mainstream October 15, 2008
'Crime' is a good novel, but it's not really an 'Irvine Welsh' novel. It's very readable and enjoyable, but it's quite conventional when compared to his previous works. Not unlike Elmore Leonard in some respects, such as the neat, happy ending. There are flashes of the old Welsh in there, and it made me laugh a few times. Nothing much to shock you, really, and although I have found some of his previous books a bit stressing at times, I like his old style more. As a native Scot living in Florida, I feel that he captures the essence of the place quite well. His efforts at writing American dialects have notably improved since his previous work, although there's still scope for more...All that said, I still recommend this book.
CRIME COMES CLOSE BUT IS NO CIGAR October 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay if you are an Irvine Welsh fan you may be enthusiastic about the concept of this book and the cover alone casts a chilling spell but I kept reading and waiting for Welsh to deliver the goods. If I wanted to be titillated yet not consumed I might as well re-read Lolita, where at least Nabokov knew how to finesse some hot steam. Welsh, have you lost your nerve ol' boy? You of all people could have knocked this ball right out of the park. Instead, you left me in that hotel room waiting and wanting for more. The only thing that got fed in this book is the crazy scene where the crocodile swallows the dog. Come on Welsh, you're supposed to be our boy! You could have ruled in this arena. Check out Bukowski's Notes of a Dirty Old Man and see how its done or better yet, Pam Ward's BAD GIRLS BURN SLOW. Those books deliver the goods.
Welsh continuing in his newer direction October 7, 2008
At some point since writing "Glue" but more emphatically in "If You Liked School, you'll Love Work" Welsh decided to make his protagonists flawed but essentially decent characters rather than the full bore misanthropes and misfits of his earlier works.
If you like Welsh's "Bedroom Secrets" and "If you liked School," you're bound to enjoy "Crime." If you only reminisce about the days of "Trainspotting," "Filth," and "The Maribou Stork Nightmares" then you might not be as receptive.
Welsh is also showing more of his expatriate experience in his books by setting "Crime" in Florida. As an American, I don't always agree with Welsh's phonetics, but he hears our accent through different ears.
"Crime's" plot is a little stretched from a believability standpoint, but an entertaining and insightful, if at times disturbing, novel nonetheless.
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