{"product_id":"secondhand-cracker-tv-tie-in-crime-bargain-book-box-sp4267","title":"Secondhand Cracker TV Tie-In Crime Bargain Book Box SP4267","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Cracker TV Tie-In Crime Bargain Book Box SP4267\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: True Romance — Liz Holliday — Someone is sending Fitz love letters, and killing young men to get his attention.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCracker: 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51123001557211,"sku":"SP4267","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4267.jpg?v=1794529073","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-cracker-tv-tie-in-crime-bargain-book-box-sp4267","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}