Hard Frost

DI Jack Frost Book 4

R D Wingfield

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Bantam
01 May 1997

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: DI Jack Frost

For fans of A TOUCH OF FROST, more tales of Inspector Frost as he muddles his way through a gruelling assortment of crimes.

'Fast-paced and wryly amusing... A delight from start to finish' - Val McDermid

Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.

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. Frost is up to his neck in crime.

And the problems keep coming.

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. But beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary powers of detection...

By: R D Wingfield
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 105mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 231g
ISBN: 9780552144094
ISBN 10: 0552144096
Series: DI Jack Frost
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 May 1997
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Hard Frost: (DI Jack Frost Book 4)

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 *