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A Killing Frost
A Killing Frost
Oct 3, 2024 5:13 AM

Author:R D Wingfield

A Killing Frost

'Another jam-packed, thrilling outing for Wingfield's DI Jack Frost.' Stuart MacBride

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?

The addictive crime novel from the creator of A TOUCH OF FROST

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

Absorbing... A good book for newcomers to start with

—— Daily Telegraph

The master of the long, dark night

—— Crime Time

'A rollicking, feel-good adventure set among the murky and convulsive politics of the present-day Middle East'

—— JEWISH CHRONICLE

'An exciting page-turner...unusual and intriguing'

—— WESTERN DAILY PRESS

There's a stark immediacy to his prose...frenetically paced thriller

—— Daily Mail

Running jokes and consciously ludicrous moments come thick and fast

—— Guardian

The taut dialogue buzzes with snappy ventriloquism. Welsh is one of our most interesting writers on the minutiae of human consciousness

—— Sunday Telegraph

Essentially a stunning exploration of the darkest parts of the human psyche, one which will haunt the reader

—— Socialist Review

There is no doubt that Crime is a page-turner

—— New Statesman

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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