When a bloody young man suffering from amnesia is found lying on the train tracks in Manchester, the town in which young women are being brutally murdered, he becomes in a prime suspect in the murders, but mastermind Dr. Edward Fitzgerald believes he is innocent. Reprint.

Fitz is an ingenious psychologist who freelances his services to the police as a criminal profiler and master confessor. The police admire his skills, but not his Fitz loves gambling, booze, cigarettes, and pushing his considerable bulk into any situation that intrigues him. When a pair of cop-killers fall in love and begin a crime spree, Fitz gets brought in to hunt them down. In the midst of his investigation, his wife leaves him and he finds himself falling for his department liaison, Detective Sergeant Jane Penhaligon. Torn between love of his family and the charms of the young policewoman, Fitz must focus on a case that questions the very nature of love and violence.

The third of SMP's successful adaptations of the critically acclaimed "Cracker" which airs in the US on the A&E channel. Cracker is Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, a down-on-his-luck, drinking, smoking, overweight, almost-divorced police psychiatrist, brilliantly played by Robbie Coltrane. This time out, a young boy is found murdered, his body banging from a tree. All signs point to his English teacher as the killer on what looks like an open-and-shut case. But when police call Fitz to help obtain a confession, the truth proves as elusive as the killer himself.

The latest investigation for police psychologist Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, from the popular Cracker television series, concerns an apparent racial murder by a skinhead, a case that develops some disturbing complications.

A novelization of the second story of "Cracker", broadcast in 1994. Trant, the leader of a Christian fundamentalist community is threatened when his affair with a churchgoer is uncovered. A series of events leads to two deaths. Who would accuse the respectable, Christian, Trant of murder?

Adapted and enlarged from the television script of "Cracker". A serial rapist is at large. There are already three victims and the police have no clues. Fitz, meanwhile, is struggling to reconcile his police work, the separation from Judith and his affair with DS Penhaligon.

In Manchester a prostitute is murdered. Fitz and Wise's team track down the murderer, but while he is in custody another victim is found, killed by the same method and with the same DNA profile. Could the culprit be the suspect's brother - the priest who is officiating Fitz's mother's funeral?

With a baby on the way and a marriage on the way out, all Fitz wants is a pint to wash away his troubles. Thoughts of a good drink quickly disappear when an elderly land lady in his beloved Manchester is visciously murdered. Why anyone would want to kill a kindly old woman is anyone's guess, but Fitz is the only one with the know how to find the answers.

After an unplanned baby and Fitz's affair, Judith has finally had enough and Fitz's brother Danny offers her the romance and affection she needs. But Fitz, as he investigates a string of bizarre murders, finds his relationships cruelly exposed.