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  • Published: 1 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409043096
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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First Frost

DI Jack Frost series 1





R.D. Wingfield's unforgettable Jack Frost returns in this gripping prequel to the bestselling series. A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller. Perfect for fans of David Jason's Frost and readers of Stuart MacBride and Peter James.

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

Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country's on alert for an outbreak of rabies.

Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is working under his mentor and inspiration DI Bert Williams, and coping badly with his increasingly strained marriage.

But DI Williams is nowhere to be seen. So when a 12-year-old girl goes missing from a department store changing room, DS Frost is put in charge of the investigation...

'One of the most successful ventriloquial acts in crime writing.' - Financial Times

  • Published: 1 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409043096
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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Praise for First Frost

One of the most successful ventriloquial acts in crime writing.

Financial Times

Brilliantly engineered period police procedural

DAILY MIRROR

Entertaining, well written and simply a joy to read, FIRST FROST brings one of the best-loved heroes of British crime fiction well and truly back to life

Eurocrime.co.uk

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

MARTINA COLE

Gripping, and funny with it

PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH

Not only a gripping mystery, but an exclusive look at Jack Frost's early years

DAVID JASON

The success of First Frost is incontestable. This is a palpable hit... [a] dark, but glittering pearl

Barry Forshaw, INDEPENDENT

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