Hard Frost

Hard Frost

(DI Jack Frost Book 4)

Summary

‘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…

Reviews

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

About the author

R D Wingfield

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