Cracker: Complete & Unabridged: To Say I Love You [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Molly Brown (Author), Steven Hartley (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

A first in a series of mysteries based on the award-winning Cracker television series introduces Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, a British psychologist with a failing marriage, who starts to fall for a female police detective while he tracks two vicious cop-killers.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Set in Manchester, England, this is the first in a series of projected novels based on A&E's Cracker mystery series that was created by Jimmy McGovern and won the 1994 Edgar for Best Television Mystery Feature. Despite its flaws-a slow beginning and abrupt, disconcerting shifts in scene-the raw energy generated by its unique characters sustains considerable suspense. A prostitute deeply in debt to a loan shark befriends a shy young man who becomes an accomplice to her murderous schemes. The two descend into a mad and bloody path, beginning with the grisly dispatch of the loan shark and leading to the fatal bludgeoning a policeman. The copper's youthful, acrimonious squad pursues the duo, aided by Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, freelance psychologist to the police. Shrewd and witty, Fitz is also burdened: he is alcoholic, a compulsive gambler, estranged from his vindictive wife and drawn to a policewoman. Psychotics, psychologists and police all play dangerous games, spinning off enough tension to propel the tale to its grim, satisfying conclusion.
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From Booklist

British psychologist and police consultant Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is fat, sloppy, and lovably klutzy but nonetheless brilliant at getting inside the heads of Britain's most notorious criminals. His latest case involves tracking down a pair of killers who are young, dumb, and violent. Neither Sean Kerrigan nor Tina Brien has ever been valued or loved. Alienated and alone, drifter Sean stutters so badly he can't be understood, while Tina, brought up in affluence, has turned rebellious hustler. When the pair goes on a killing spree and shoots cop George Giggs, Detective Sergeant Jane Penhaligon, Giggs' partner, is bent on avenging his death--and coincidentally improving her chances for promotion by solving the case. She and Fitz team up to find Sean and Tina. Brown's taut novel, based on a script developed for the Arts and Entertainment network's popular Cracker mystery series, is compelling, complex, dark--and a guaranteed page-turner. Emily Melton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: ISIS Audio Books; Unabridged edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0753104601
• ISBN-13: 978-0753104606
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Series of Novelizations That Improve On the Source, October 27, 2001

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mintonmedia "writer/producer/opinionated jerk" (Beverly Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cracker to Say I Love You (Mass Market Paperback)

I HATE novelizations. But these done for the great British TV mystery series starring Robbie Coltrane actually improve upon the teleplays, adding rich details and psychological insight to the already intense plots. These books could easily stand alone as a great series of psychological crime novels, unified in tone despite the fact that half a dozen different authors have been involved in their creation. Leave it to the Brits to once again do the impossible. First The Battle of Britain, now this...