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    Winter Frost

    Written by R. D. Wingfield

    Narrated by David Jason

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    Winter in Denton is cold, bleak and a busy time for Detective Inspector Jack Frost, whose unsolved crime figures are mounting as he struggles to bring them down in the face of manpower shortages and budget cuts.

    Denton is currently having more than its fair share of crime. But Frost’s main concern is for the safety of a missing schoolgirl. Nine weeks ago Vicky Stuart, eight years old, didn’t return home from school and in spite of exhaustive enquiries and extensive searches, has never been seen since. Another little girl from the same school is reported missing. Her body is found… raped and strangled.

    Frost’s prime suspect, strongly protesting his innocence, hangs himself in his cell, leaving a note blaming Frost for driving him to suicide. Subsequent evidence points to the man’s innocence.

    Coarse, insubordinate and fearless, DI Jack Frost is in serious trouble.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 15, 2005
    ISBN9780007218332
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    Winter Frost
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    R. D. Wingfield

    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 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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    • 1/5
      R. D. Wingfield was primarily a writer of radio plays, most of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was in one of these that Detective Inspector Frost first made his appearance, although in that initial outing he was a far more jaded and cynical character that in his subsequent television incarnation as portrayed by David Jason. After A Touch of Frost came to the television screens, Wingfield wrote a few ‘companion’ volumes, notable for the complexity of their multi-layered plots. While enjoyable, it was not difficult to spot that the novel was not Wingfield’s medium of choice, and that there was a certain formulaic nature to them.Sadly this volume, published some years after Frost had become established as one of the most popular and enduring television detectives, is weaker still. At many points, the characters barely even manage to be two dimensional, and the plot is lamentable turgid. I am not sure why Wingfield bothered … and I wish I hadn’t.
    • 5/5
      The Frost series just keeps getting better and better. Detective Inspector Frost is in top form dealing with a serial killer of local prostitutes, a new acting inspector Liz Maud, and the continual harassment from Superintendent Mullett, who can never quite understand why Frost can never seem to find a filling station that provides printed receipts for his gasoline reimbursement. Fortunately, Frost has a new DC who is quite adept at completing long overdue crime statistic reports and changing "5's" to "8's" on the gasoline reimbursement forms. Lots of the scenes had me laughing out loud. He continues to have a knack at dealing with suspects: "Do you want to confess now, or shall we waste time beating you up and claiming you fell down the stairs while drunk?" Insisting that a bus load of drunken revelers be kept out of the station, fearing the mess they would make, Mullett orders them to be gotten out of the way. Frost has the inspired idea of putting them back on the bus, whereupon they steal it, driving off quickly, and smashing Mullett's new car in the process.

      Mullett is already livid because his usual parking place had been taken by the bus when he arrived. Frost meets him in the parking lot and begins, "Your best bet is to say it was parked and some drunken sod ran into it." "That's exactly what did happen," snapped Mullett. "Good for you!" nodded Frost approvingly. "I almost believe you myself, and I can always see through a lie." Frost really has his hands full in this one. He has someone killing and molesting children, a serial rapist and killer abducting and torturing local prostitutes, a DC who keeps getting everything wrong, and then suddenly a thirty-fiveyear old skeleton pops up with its skull bashed in. Throughout he keeps making mistakes, wrong guesses, constantly flagellating himself for his errors, no doubt wishing it could be Mullett instead.

      Throughout, he has to cajole, bribe, and browbeat Mullett into assigning more men to stakeouts, spending more on overtime, and signing Frost's forged receipts. Then his prime suspect commits suicide in a holding cell, claiming that Frost badgered him and humiliated an innocent man. And to make things worse, the evidence begins to point to the man's innocence. Set aside some time for this one, the ending will keep you riveted to your seat and chuckling all the while. Great stuff.
    • 5/5
      At the risk of repeating myself, I am once again singing the praises of DI Frost and his creator, R.D. Wingfield. Winter Frost which is the 5th book in this police procedural series is as good, if not better, than his previous four. Frost is still the sloppy, funny, seemingly inept policeman that eventually solves his cases. He is still aided and abetted by a wonderful cast of characters including his dogmatic, rule imposing, boot licking superior and his new assistant who is even lazier and more slovenly than Frost himself but excels in fiddling both Frost’s expenses and the Crime Stats Report.Don’t get me wrong, these books are far from cozy, they are very dark. This time out Frost is searching for missing children and hunting a serial murderer who targets prostitutes. As one missing child turns up brutally raped and strangled, the pressure mounts. Thrown into the mix are the numerous other cases that Frost and his cronies must deal with, from armed robbery, hit-and-run accidents and the thirty year old remains of a skeleton.These books are great reads, dark, intense, yet able to make you laugh out loud. An old-fashioned policeman, Frost very rarely goes by the book, he muddles through and eventually arrives at the correct finish. Deep down he is a very honourable man and is doing his best for the public Slightly formulaic in nature, I like to spread these reads out, and it is my great sadness that after this book I only have one more to look forward to.
    • 5/5
      I do not usually read mystery novels, but I find the Frost stories fun to read. In this case, Frost is looking for someone who abducts young girls, sexually assaults them and then abandons them in isolated areas. While trying to get a handle on this case, he is also trying to stopped a serial killer from killing more prostitutes. Other characters who hinder his investigations are his incompetent assistant, Morgan and his supervisor, Chief Superintendent Mullet whose main concern is to look good to his superiors. Wingfield's Frost novels are an odd combination of dark, evil, crime ridden streets and laugh out loud humour mainly provided by Frost's sarcasm. I could not put this book down until I reached the conclusion.
    • 3/5
      Een beetje een chaotische detective in badinerende stijl. Goed voor een paar uur vermaak tijdens een griepje, niet meer dan dat.
    • 5/5
      Usual well written Jack Frost detective novel, with humourous dialogue leavening the sometimes bleak plotline of serial killer and dead prostitute.