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A Killing Frost
A Killing Frost
Oct 2, 2024 2:14 PM

Author:R D Wingfield

A Killing Frost

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?

Reviews

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

—— STUART MACBRIDE

Swaggeringly fluent and fast-paced... Frost remains by far the most unattractive cop in mainstream crime fiction

—— Mark Lawson , GUARDIAN

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

—— DAILY TELEGRAPH

Mankell is writing with his heart on his sleeve, and the subject matter is a worthy one

—— Irish Times

Inventive, funny and worryingly prophetic

—— Guardian

Action-packed and authentic in every detail, it gives us a hero who's at least as scary as the villains. Andy McNab is the real deal and a rare commodity - a hard guy who knows how to write

—— JOHN CASE

With breathless speed, Unger is off on an action-packed journey of treachery and intrigue-and sex and romance. . . . Deep as well as clever, and Unger plays it out thrillingly

—— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Unger effectively builds suspicions. . . . Cleverly handled suspense

—— Kirkus Reviews

Her engaging narrative wins us over

—— Entertainment Weekly

This mystery's surprising twists will make your jaw drop

—— Cosmopolitan

Perfect pitch, characters we can recognize as versions of ourselves, a plot in which a vague sense of suspense almost instantly appears and then grows with the speed of a waterslide... lip-smacking good

—— Chicago Tribune

Lisa Unger comes on strong... A tightly written thriller... Beautiful Lies maintains a high adrenaline level throughout as Jones draws ever closer to learning the dark secrets of her childhood and to discovering who is behind a scheme that changed her life. The book's characters are fully formed, and the action is depicted with satisfying breathlessness

—— San Francisco Chronicle

Reacher fans will love it - it's all storming compounds, breaking hearts and not bothering to take names, taking justice into his own hands and to hell with the wos'name... a solid inter-Bond-film substitute

—— Maxim
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