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Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division,  is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's  something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly,  with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut  corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce  him from the department. The only problem is,  Frost's the one D.I. who, by hook  or by crook, always seems to find a way to get the  job done. It's a high price to pay for a pak of  smokes when Frost interrupts his vacation to filch  some of Commander Mullett's cigarettes and finds  himself pressed into emergency duty. Denton Division  is shorthanded after a car crash involving several  tipsy high-ranking cops, and on Guy Fawkes night  there's more mischief abroad than just a few  children making the rounds begging for pennies and  lighting firecrackers. In the next few days, Frost will  deal with a parade of miscreants, including a  blackmailer, a shifty businessman, a not-so-greiving  widow, a sexual pervert or two, a crazed housewife,  and a cold-blooded kidnapper. The clock is  ticking, and Frost is perilously short of clues...

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‘Crime pick of the year. Darker, funnier and more violent than the television adaptation, but just as high quality’Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

A young boy is found dead in a rubbish sack, suffocated and with one finger cut off.Another boy of the same age, Bobby Kirby, is missing.A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed, intuitive and fearless. The next problem for the understaffed Denton force is the abduction of Carol Stanfield, a fifteen-year-old who's found naked by the roadside, her father having paid a ransom.Robert Stanfield is a dicey customer, and Frost has his doubts...

The corpse of a petty criminal, Lemmy Hoxton, 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 Bobby, accompanied by one of the child's fingers. Jack Frost, brought to magnificent life by David Jason in the TV series, staggers from crisis to crisis, his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection.

'Inspector Jack Frost (is) deplorable yet funny, a comic monster on the side of the angels' Matthew Coady, Guardian

About the Author:
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.

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  • PublisherCorgi
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0552144096
  • ISBN 13 9780552144094
  • BindingMass Market Paperback
  • Number of pages448
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