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First Frost

First Frost

'Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough' - Martina Cole

Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country's on alert for an outbreak of rabies.

Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is working under his mentor and inspiration DI Bert Williams, and coping badly with his increasingly strained marriage.

But DI Williams is nowhere to be seen. So when a 12-year-old girl goes missing from a department store changing room, DS Frost is put in charge of the investigation...

'One of the most successful ventriloquial acts in crime writing.' - Financial Times

Reviews

  • One of the most successful ventriloquial acts in crime writing.

    Financial Times

  • Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough

    MARTINA COLE

  • Not only a gripping mystery, but an exclusive look at Jack Frost's early years

    DAVID JASON

  • The success of First Frost is incontestable. This is a palpable hit... [a] dark, but glittering pearl

    Barry Forshaw, INDEPENDENT

  • This is great stuff. Just when you thought you'd seen the last of him, Jack Frost returns in a prequel to the series, which finds Frost in his best paisley tie tracking down a missing girl

    PETER ROBINSON

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