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Crime
- Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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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?
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- crochetdiva
- 16-12-21
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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- christopher mcgarry
- 19-02-23
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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- Amazon Customer
- 19-10-22
Fantastic
Another absolutely stunning book from Mr Welsh,dark but funny and ultimately uplifting and brilliant performance from Mr Burn👏
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- Mark
- 15-10-22
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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- Jeremy Brown
- 01-10-22
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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- Ray G.
- 12-02-22
slow burner
Love Irvine Walsh .
This was a wonderfully crafted tale. The narrator was immense , when Ray is talking to himself is spellbinding.
Fu***ng nonce currency.
Nearly crashed my van laughing.
Great book!
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- MickeyJB
- 27-12-21
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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- Julie McG
- 17-10-23
Fantastic - couldn’t stop listening
This is my first Irvine Welsh novel and what a cracker to start with. Had me gripped from the beginning.
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- Ms. H. Forbes
- 30-09-23
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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- Paul C.
- 15-10-22
Liked the story, hated the narration.
First off I'm as Scottish as they come, but Welsh really needs to find a new narrator for his books. Burn is all over the place, his delivery and cadence are jarring and make Welsh sound like an even worse writer than he is, also annoying is the way every female character comes across as an air heeded bimbo wether they are or not and the flip flopping between Scottish and American accents when there's no need just sounds awful, Jonathan Hackett is a much better performer of Welsh's books and delivers every word as if he'd written the book himself.
I like Welsh's work, he writes good characters and stories (which being from Scotland, are almost always relatable to a degree) but when he's writing in anything other than the first person perspective his shortcomings as a writer float to the surface with some of his writing coming off as borderline infantile in places, which really isn't helped by Burns reading.
As for the rest, it's initially hard to take Ray Lennox seriously as a hardened detective and tough guy when Welsh spent almost an entire book portraying him as a useless, tiny c*cked waste of space but once you reconcile that this could've just been Robbo being Robbo and realise Ray is very much his own man here, he's a great protagonist, trying his best not to choke on the scum of humanity he's always neck deep in while he attempts to take them down. looking forward to more adventures of Ray Lennox, not so much looking forward to more of Burn's performance.
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