Synopsis
Fitz has to increase his lectures at several universities as he is broke. The attentions of one of his pupils leave him unaffected until he realises that she may be involved in murder and harming his family.
From the Back Cover
True Romance is the ninth story from the internationally acclaimed series
Cracker, winner of two BAFTA awards, and created by the celebrated writer Jimmy McGovern.
Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) is a brilliant criminal psychologist with a dark side a side dependent on a cocktail of alcohol and gambling. He lectures at the local university and profiles suspects for the Manchester Police Force.
D.C.I. Wise gets dumped by his wife, Penhaligon needs to talk, Judith finally finds understanding, not in Fitz, but in the non-gambling, buffed-up version of him his brother, Danny. Just as Fitz begins to face up to some of his worst faults, he starts receiving anonymous love letters from a young woman who thinks he is perfect. A body is dumped a male psychology student, a classic organised murder, and when Fitz gets another letter, describing the man who came to dinner, he realises the murderer and his admirer are one and the same person. Fitz is dropped from the investigation, but soon finds himself racing against the clock as the body count goes up and the murderer uses his son, Mark as bait to lure him back onto the case.