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A Touch of Frost
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A Touch of Frost
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A Touch of Frost

Written by R. D. Wingfield

Narrated by David Jason

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Sleepy Denton is sleepy no more; a dead junky, a missing girl, a robbery at the strip joint, an MP accused of a hit and run offence and a multiple rapist at large are all sent to try David Jason’s already overworked DI Jack Frost.

A rapist on the loose, a young girl missing, a robbery at a leisure complex run by a low life, and an old man knocked down by a driver who wouldn’t stop … Detective Inspector Jack Frost knew that there would be lots more to come …

The crime novel at its compelling best, as David Jason read R D Wingrield’s A Touch of Frost.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateAug 15, 2005
ISBN9780007222179
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A Touch of Frost
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R. D. Wingfield

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 has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The book is excellent, and is amusing at times, and David Jason reads it very well.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I have a new love in my life, Detective Inspector Jack Frost. Well, I wouldn't want to actually spend time with him in Real Life, doncha know, but I love him madly on the page. Jack is crude, irreverent, and bumbling ala Colombo, but also crafty and compassionate. In the space of a couple of days he solves three different robberies, a hit and run death, the murders of a drug-addicted tramp and a policeman, the disappearance of a teenage girl, and a serial rapist case. This was my first Jack Frost mystery, and while it is mostly plot driven, the wild pace rockets one along so that character development hardly matters. I know I'll spend more happy time with Jack.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In the first few pages of this book a body is discovered in a basement-level public toilet which is slowly flooding with all manner of awful liquids. This sets the scene for what follows in more ways than one: a particularly gritty police procedural which is full of really well described people and events.

    Inspector Jack Frost is a coarse, disorganised Detective Inspector who has the misfortune to do his policing near the most dangerous woods in the universe (People are constantly getting raped, killed, bashed and otherwise ill-treated in Denton Woods). I like the fact that there are multiple crimes being investigated at once in this book and Wingfield does a good job of allowing readers to keep track of the various sub-plots.

    I suspect my enjoymnet of this book suffered because I have seen the TV series but have never read any of the books before. So I had an idea of the lead character in my head and this idea didn't gel with the one in the book. For TV they took out some of the nastier sides of Frost's character and, while I acknowledge that was doing a disservice to the book, I prefer the TV version. I don't find the corase jokes and never ending sexism of the Frost in the book attractive at all which put a dampener on what is otherwise a solid read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    the book is written in a very entertaining funny way but its just a great crime book. Read the whole series after reading just one at random.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Thorougly enjoyed rereading this book. Can't help but hear and see David Jason in the TV role, which is quite a bit more sanitised. Detective Inspector Jack Frost solves the murder of a drug-addicted tramp, the disappearance of a teenage girl, the robbery of money from a nightclub and gold sovereigns from a money lender and pawn shop, the ongoing case of a serial rapist/killer and the murder of a police colleague in a haphazard way accompanied by a disgruntled demoted inspector.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The humour helped the book to flow well, I enjoyed it very much.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My first Frost but not to be my last. A gritty but very funny read. Inspector Frost is a hoot.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book (unabridged on this 13.5 hr CD set) could just have easily be titled FROST's WEEK. Tuesday night brings with it the discovery of the body of a junkie in a public toilet, a rape in Denton Woods, a farewell party at Denton police station for a retiree, a hit and run death at a retirement village, a robbery at the town's strip joint, a missing school girl, and the crime stats are due. This CD reading gives you to time to wallow in Wingfield's excellent writing. But if you can't get the CD and haven't got 13.5 hours to spare (no long trips coming up), then get the book. The Frost series are worth the trouble. If you can't find the books, look for the TV series with David Jason.1. Frost at Christmas (1984)2. A Touch of Frost (1987)3. Night Frost (1992)4. Hard Frost (1995)5. Winter Frost (1999)