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From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray Lennox

“The truth is what we say the truth is . . .”

Former detective Ray Lennox is determined to start a new life. He has left Edinburgh Police behind for a fresh career and a fresh relationship in Brighton.

Then he meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he is seemingly a pillar of the local community – yet he soon draws Lennox back to a past that he’s desperate to forget.

As Lennox identifies the links between Cardingworth, a series of violent attacks and the disappearances of a group of foster care boys, he is forced to ask himself: what must he sacrifice to expose the truth?Crime is by some distance Welsh’s most restrained and thoughtful work—The Times

You never know what you’re going to get with Irvine Welsh, other than guaranteed intelligence. But what you get in Crime is a triumph… There’s only one Welsh and you should be reading him again—Observer

Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades—Sunday Times

If you like your crime dramas Scottish and sweary, this one’s for you—Evening Standard

Trainspotting is the best book ever written by man or woman… Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible—Rebel IncIrvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written thirteen further novels, including Crime and the number one bestseller Dead Men’s Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.GB

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