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On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them. But it is when two young girls are reported missing in quick succession that the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights. As the exhausted Frost staggers from case to case, pressured from all sides and haunted by memories of his wife, something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner. The scheming, slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the Superintendent's office, but his first job is to manipulate the transfer of the unorthodox D.I. Jack Frost to another division. Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him away from Denton once and for all?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16897 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 496 pages

STUART MACBRIDE
'Another jam-packed, thrilling outing for Wingfield's DI Jack Frost. With more twists than a bucket of eels, this is a fitting climax to an incredible series. I can't believe there won't be any more.'

Guardian
Inspector Jack Frost [is] deplorable yet funny, a comic monster on the side of the angels.

Sunday Telegraph
The action is non-stop . . . The shambolic Frost has become a much-loved figure in crime fiction and Wingfield will be remembered especially for having created such a distinctive personality.

Customer Reviews

Worth the wait
Well, it has been a long time coming, but well worth the wait.

If you know Frost from the television series, then you don't know what you have been missing with the novels. They are far edgier and irreverent than the series could ever be. Frost is a darker character in the books, and more interesting with it, and if his humour sails close to the wind, and his methods sometimes leave a lot to be desired, Frost's cheery debunking of authority redeems him. Bringing the criminals to book is just one side of his character, for he is often at odds with the petty-minded and the sycophantic. It is his ability to crash into a scene and take the pompous down a peg or two which is a delight to read.

R D Wingfield delivers a tour-de-force of a novel. The dialogue is spot-on and had me in stitches at times, and his ability to juggle plots and cases defies belief. I don't think I know any other writer who can make it seem so effortless. Frost is his usual irascible and irreverent self. Even Frost's smarmy nemesis, Mullett, is upstaged by Chief Inspector Skinner, a dyed-in-the-wool b*stard, who is determined to make his mark at Denton Police Station and land Frost in hot water.

Very difficult to name a favourite, but A KILLING FROST is up there with HARD FROST and A TOUCH OF FROST for me.

All six novels represent a crimewriter, who not the most prolific, never dropped his standards. Read this, then go and buy the others!

Superb Crime Writing
Have waited for this follow up for a long long time, and yet again it doesn't diasappoint. There are no flaws in Wingfield's pacy scripts, filled with witty dialogue and twists and turns. Am only sad that he died before I could thank him for his top quality efforts with Frost. For those of you who have seen the television spin off, don't imagine these books are anything like it. They are just so much better.

Brilliant!
As you'd expect from R. D. Wingfield, this is a cracking read - funny, dark and fast. Frost is at his unorthodox best when pitted against his slimy nemesis DCI Skinner, and there are so many twists and turns you just can't put the book down. If you're new to Frost, start with this one and you'll be hooked.