Cracker: Best Boys

Cracker #8

by Gareth Roberts, Jimmy McGovern (Creator)

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.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 1996

About the author

Gareth Roberts has written TV scripts for various soap operas (including Brookeside, Springhill, and Emmerdale), Randall & Hopkirk (deceased), the revival of Doctor Who, the Sarah Jane Adventures, and Wizards vs Aliens.

Also for the Doctor Who universe, he has written the interactive adventure Attack of the Graske, the mobile phone TARDISODEs accompanying the 2006 series, several Big Finish audios, and multiple novels, as well as contributed to Doctor Who Magazine.