A Killing Frost by R.D. Wingfield
A Killing
Frost, A Crime Novel, By R.D. Wingfield
This is the first "Jack Frost" casebook I have read, although I have all the others on my book shelves, waiting for a rainy day. I have watched all the "Frost" programmes several times and never tire of them. You don't really need to have seen them though, as the book is so discriptive and attentive to detail, that you can almost smell that awful anorak; musty from having been wet and dried on the body so many times, with the aroma of grease and fat from Jack's continual fry ups in the police canteen, that he rarely gets to finish! Working in a continual maelstrom of mess and disorder, the reader really does begin to wonder how on earth he will ever get to solve a case. The bodies seem to mount up at an alarming rate and the reader is drawn from one plot to another, as Jack strives to keep Superintendent Mullet at bay, who is just itching for an excuse to have Jack transferred. Jack always seems able to get one over on Mullet, despite often sailing pretty close to the wind, although he has a powerful ally, in the area commander, who enjoys basking in the limelight of Frost's bravery medal! Frost, however, can be quite sensitive when dealing with victims families, and there is a well hidden softer side to this seemingly bumbling character. Rapists, Pedophiles, missing people, a butcher who has lost his mind, all feature in this episode and fit neatly into a great page turner, that I was reluctant to leave, until the last clue had been solved.
This is the first "Jack Frost" casebook I have read, although I have all the others on my book shelves, waiting for a rainy day. I have watched all the "Frost" programmes several times and never tire of them. You don't really need to have seen them though, as the book is so discriptive and attentive to detail, that you can almost smell that awful anorak; musty from having been wet and dried on the body so many times, with the aroma of grease and fat from Jack's continual fry ups in the police canteen, that he rarely gets to finish! Working in a continual maelstrom of mess and disorder, the reader really does begin to wonder how on earth he will ever get to solve a case. The bodies seem to mount up at an alarming rate and the reader is drawn from one plot to another, as Jack strives to keep Superintendent Mullet at bay, who is just itching for an excuse to have Jack transferred. Jack always seems able to get one over on Mullet, despite often sailing pretty close to the wind, although he has a powerful ally, in the area commander, who enjoys basking in the limelight of Frost's bravery medal! Frost, however, can be quite sensitive when dealing with victims families, and there is a well hidden softer side to this seemingly bumbling character. Rapists, Pedophiles, missing people, a butcher who has lost his mind, all feature in this episode and fit neatly into a great page turner, that I was reluctant to leave, until the last clue had been solved.
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