Rodney David Wingfield was a prolific writer of radio crime plays and comedy scripts. His crime novels featuring DI Jack Frost have been successfully adapted for television. Wingfield was a modest man, shunning the London publicity scene in favour of a quiet life with his wife and son.
A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. In uncertain charge of the investigation is Detective Inspector Jack Frost, crumpled, slapdash and foul-mouthed as ever.
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?
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost's the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to find a way to get the job done. It's a high price to pay for a pak of smokes when Frost interrupts his vacation to filch some of Commander Mullett's cigarettes and finds himself pressed into emergency duty. Denton Division is shorthanded after a car crash involving several tipsy high-ranking cops, and on Guy Fawkes night there's more mischief abroad than just a few children making the rounds begging for pennies and lighting firecrackers. In the next few days, Frost will deal with a parade of miscreants, including a blackmailer, a shifty businessman, a not-so-greiving widow, a sexual pervert or two, a crazed housewife, and a cold-blooded kidnapper. The clock is ticking, and Frost is perilously short of clues...
Humorous tale of a local police force's fight against crime and corruption, featuring the raffish Detective Inspector Frost. by the author of áFrost at Christmas'.
‘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.
Een meisje is verkracht, gewurgd en verbrand met een soldeerlamp. Een seriemoordenaar terroriseert de bejaarden van Denton, waar de politie, moe en gedemoraliseerd, weerstand probeert te bieden aan een slopende griepepidemie. Het korps onderzoekt de moord op een schoolmeisje, de bedreigingenwaar een jong stel onder lijdt en verder heeft de Dentonse politie ook nog eens te kampen met inbraken, een verdachte zelfmoord en probeert ze de herkomst van pornografische video's te achterhalen. De leiding van al deze onderzoeken is in handen van rechercheur Jack Frost: grof, ruw en nonchalant. Hij probeert zich staande te houden te midden van een politiekorps dat langzaam kleiner wordt. Maar er is nooit genoeg tijd, er zijn te veel onopgeloste misdaden en er worden te veel moorden gepleegd. Frost moet daarom de kortste weg kiezen en risico's nemen, in de wetenschap dat de hoofdcommissaris hem voor de leeuwen zal gooien als er iets mis gaat. En bij Frost gaat er altijd we iets mis..