A SHOCKING CRIME. A MAVERICK DETECTIVE.
A FINAL CHANCE TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH.

Ray Lennox is determined to escape his darkest days. The former inspector has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.

Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth, a rich and smooth-talking property developer. Their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades.

Lennox has no choice – he must confront the events of his childhood. But as he is pulled into a world of violence and murder, he finds himself asking: what will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

*****

PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:

‘There’s only one Welsh and you should be reading him’
OBSERVER

‘The best thing that has happened to British writing for decades’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘Powerful . . . A bracing and engaging read’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Plot twists keep the pages turning’
DAILY EXPRESS

(Irvine Welsh’s Resolution was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 15 Jul 2024)

OLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCES

Ray Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.

Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.

Lennox has no choice – he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking:

What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

*****

PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:

‘There’s only one Welsh and you should be reading him’
OBSERVER

‘The best thing that has happened to British writing for decades’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘Powerful . . . A bracing and engaging read’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Sharp, fearless, passionate and brilliant’
INDEPENDENT