Crime
By Irvine Welsh
Jonathan Cape £12.99, 344 pages
FT Bookshop price: £10.39

An Irvine Welsh novel set in Miami might seem like a pint of Tennent’s lager decorated with a cocktail umbrella. But for his seventh foray into long fiction, the shock Jock author has swapped the squalor and despair of Edinburgh’s worst housing schemes for the Florida sun. Crime is his first US-based novel – although three short stories from last year’s collection, If You liked School, You’ll Love Work, were also set in America.