- Police, Fiction, Child welfare, Thriller
An electrifying thriller about innocence and absolute evil.Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- DIABLE VAUVERT, Vintage Books, Quetzal Editores
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393335507
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