Published by Corgi, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
R D Wingfield
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552144094
£7.99
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EAN: 9780552144094
Published: 8 Apr 2008
A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy, accompanied by one of the child's fingers...
Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis, his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection.
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'Crime pick of the year. Darker, funnier and more violent than the television adaptation, but just as high quality'
- Daily Telegraph
Inspector Jack Frost (is) deplorable yet funny, a comic monster on the side of the angels
- Guardian
What impresses me most is the extraordinarily vivid interplay between the police characters. Frost himself is splendidly drawn
- The Times
Fast paced and wryly amusing, Frost's latest outing is a delight from start to finish, a unique and unlikely blend of humour and tragedy. More please
- Manchester Evening News
After a successful career writing for radio, R.D. Wingfield turned his attention to fiction and created the character of D.I. Jack Frost, who has featured in the titles A Touch of Frost, Frost at Christmas, Night Frost, Hard Frost, Winter Frost and A Killing Frost. The series has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007.
