Hard Frost Av R D Wingfield

<p><b>‘Fast-paced and wryly amusing… A delight from start to finish’ – Val McDermid</b><br><b><br>Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.</b><br><br>A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. Frost is up to his neck in crime.<br><br><b>And the problems keep coming.</b><br><br>The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife''s body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy, accompanied by one of the child''s fingers... <br><br> Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis. <b>But beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary powers of detection…</b></p>