Secondhand Cracker TV Tie-In Crime Bargain Book Box SP4267

Secondhand Cracker TV Tie-In Crime Bargain Book Box SP4267

Nine Cracker novels, eight based on the award-winning 1990s ITV series and one original story. Robbie Coltrane’s Fitz, the gambling, drinking, chain-smoking criminal psychologist, is on every cover. Jimmy McGovern’s scripts were among the best British television of their decade, and the books add the thoughts the screen couldn’t show.

1. Cracker: To Be a Somebody — Gareth Roberts — A grieving factory worker shaves his head, walks into a corner shop and starts killing, with the Hillsborough disaster behind it all. The most famous Cracker story, played on screen by Robert Carlyle.
2. Cracker: True Romance — Liz Holliday — Someone is sending Fitz love letters, and killing young men to get his attention.
3. Cracker: One Day a Lemming Will Fly — Liz Holliday — A schoolboy is found hanged in the woods, and suspicion falls on his teacher. Fitz is certain he knows the truth, and for once he is wrong.
4. Cracker: To Say I Love You — Molly Brown — A young man with a terrible stammer and a girl who has never been loved find each other, and then begin to kill. A Bonnie and Clyde story set in Manchester.
5. Cracker: The Mad Woman in the Attic — Jim Mortimore — A woman is murdered on a train, and the man found beside the track says he can’t remember anything. The first Cracker story, where Fitz talks his way onto the case.
6. Cracker: The Big Crunch — Liz Holliday — A schoolgirl is found naked and dying, covered in strange symbols, and the trail leads to a small, strict religious sect.
7. Cracker: Brotherly Love — Jim Mortimore — A prostitute is murdered, and the police arrest a man. The killing continues, and inside the station a detective is coming apart.
8. Cracker: Best Boys — Gareth Roberts — A lonely factory foreman takes a teenage runaway under his wing, and the two of them end up on the run together.
9. Cracker: White Ghost — Tom McGregor — Fitz is in Hong Kong for a lecture tour when a failing British businessman starts murdering his way out of debt. A feature-length story set just before the handover.