Hard Frost

Hard Frost

by R D Wingfield (Author), R.D. Wingfield (Author)

Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: mass_market
Publisher: Corgi
Published:

ISBN 10: 0552144096
ISBN 13: 9780552144094
Book Overview: For fans of A TOUCH OF FROST, more tales of Inspector Frost as he muddles his way through a gruelling assortment of crimes.

Media Reviews
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 -- Val McDermid * Manchester Evening News *
Author Bio
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.