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Winter Frost
Winter Frost
Oct 19, 2024 5:20 AM

Author:R D Wingfield

Winter Frost

‘Possibly the most accurate picture of police work in crime fiction today… An absolute cracker’ – Mike Ripley

Denton is having more than its fair share of crime.

A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes; a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a long-buried skeleton; there is an armed robbery at a local minimart and a ram raid at a jewellers.

But Detective Inspector Jack Frost's main concern is for the safety of a missing eight-year-old. And soon after another girl is reported missing, her body is found . . . raped and strangled.

Then Frost's prime suspect hangs himself in his cell, leaving a note blaming Frost for driving him to suicide.

Frost may be coarse, insubordinate and fearless. But he’s also in serious trouble.

Reviews

Frost is a splendid creation, a cross between Rumpole and Colombo

—— The Times

R.D.Wingfield has created possibly the most accurate picture of police work in crime fiction today... Winter Frost is an absolute cracker

—— Mike Ripley, Sherlock Holmes

If you enjoy crime fiction at all, read this. If you've never read a crime novel in your life, start with this one

—— Morning Star

An excellent thriller

—— Independent

By far the best writer of police mysteries today

—— Michael Ondaatje

The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all

—— Daily Telegraph

The most original crime writer of our time

—— Spectator

James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world

—— Times Literary Supplement

Without him and his crime fiction, there's no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy

—— GQ

Burnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange

—— Margaret Reynolds , The Times

Unsettling, hauntingly memorable tale

—— Sunday Times

Written with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps and non sequiturs and a clever travesty of several genres, this is a disturbing, provocative book'

—— Guardian


[A Summer of Drowning] brings an eerie glow to the colours and sounds, flora and foodstuffs of the far north

—— Justine Jordan , Guardian
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