First Frost
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  • Published: 20 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407096032
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: David Jason

First Frost

DI Jack Frost series 1

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1 Apr 2011
Audiobook
20 Jan 2011
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15 Feb 2011
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2 Jan 2012
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R.D. Wingfield's unforgettable Detective Jack Frost returns in... First Frost

It's the early 1980s - Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active, and a case of rabies has just been reported in a neighbouring county.

Detective Sergeant Jack Frost, now in his early forties, is working under his mentor and inspiration Detective Inspector Bert Williams. But when DI Williams fails to turn up for work, DS Frost is temporarily put in charge of a sensitive investigation into a missing twelve-year-old girl.

Julie Hudson has recently been snatched by a man from a department store changing room. And to add to this a gang of youths is terrorising a housing estate, a baby is mauled in broad daylight, the body of a blind man is found in a canal, a sex game has gone fatally wrong - and there's still no sign of Bert Williams.

As Frost moves from case to case, he seems to be the only person seriously trying to locate DI Williams. And then his boss's dead body is found, and things get a whole lot more complicated...
  • Published: 20 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407096032
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: David Jason
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About the author

James Henry

James Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt who has long been a fan of the original R. D. Wingfield books and the subsequent TV series. He worked for several years as an accountant before moving into publishing. In 2009 he set up Corsair, a literary imprint for Constable & Robinson, Wingfield’s original publisher. He lives in Essex.

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Praise for First Frost

One of the most successful ventriloquial acts in crime writing.

Financial Times

I was delighted to read FIRST FROST. Not only a gripping mystery, but an exclusive look at Jack Frost's early years

David Jason

This is brilliant! A must for all fans of Frost, but also so much more. Gripping, finely written, it stands as a classic, period crime thriller in its own right

Peter James

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough

Martina Cole

This is great stuff. Just when you thought you'd seen the last of him, Jack Frost returns in a prequel to the series, which finds Frost in his best paisley tie tracking down a missing girl

Peter Robinson, bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series

...it's dark and satisfying and beautifully read by David Jason

Kati Nicholl, Daily Express