El artista de la cuchilla

Begbie -the psychopath of that gang of misfits who starred in Trainspotting- has reformed. He now lives on the California coast, has a comfortable and elegant home, a wife named Melanie and two daughters, a new name -Jim Francis- and a new profession: he is a sculptor, renowned for his distorted busts and mutilated faces. Famous. But the past always returns, and, after a strange incident during a walk on the beach in which her family is threatened by two guys, her sister calls to report that Sean, one of the two children from a previous relationship she left in Edinburgh, he has died. More specifically: he has been assassinated. Begbie returns home, attends the funeral of a scion he barely knew and, in the absence of clues from the police, begins to inquire about his account. These detective adventures will lead to the reunion with old acquaintances, the destruction of valuable paintings, the burning of a house, a trail of corpses and various adrenaline-pumping situations of extreme violence... until a resolution of the case is completely unexpected for the improvised investigator. Meanwhile, Melanie -who has also landed in Edinburgh across the Atlantic- begins to discover aspects of her husband's personality that she was completely unaware of...