Frost At Christmas [electronic resource]
Wingfield, R D2010
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'Exciting, ingenious, roundly satisfying' – Literary Review Ten days to Christmas. Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday school. Her mother, a pretty young prostitute, is desperate. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, sloppy, scruffy and insubordinate. He's been assigned a new sidekick, the Chief Constable's nephew Detective Constable Clive Barnard. Fresh to provincial Denton in an oversmart suit, Barnard is an easy target for Frost's withering satire. Assisted and annoyed by Barnard, Frost, complete with a store of tasteless anecdotes to fit every occasion, proceeds with the investigation in typically unorthodox style. After consulting a local witch, Frost finds himself drawn into an unsolved crime from the past. He's risking not only his career, but also his life...
Main title:
Frost At Christmas [electronic resource] / R D Wingfield
Author:
Wingfield, R D, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Transworld, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Jack Frost
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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 adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007.
ISBN:
9781407068121
Language:
English
BRN:
2755910
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