R. D. Wingfield Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

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?

Denton, cittadina britannica a nord-ovest di Londra, viene colpita da una violenta epidemia d'influenza e, nel contempo, da una sconcertante ondata di criminalità. Ad arginare gli episodi di criminalità è l'ispettore investigatore Jack Frost. Un poliziotto che si affida più all'istinto che agli indizi, e che non esita a giocare sporco, a suo rischio e pericolo, quando si trova con le spalle al muro.

‘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.

A un tratto l'esistenza sonnacchiosa di Denton, tipica cittadina nei pressi di Londra dove tutto sembra filare tranquillo, viene sconvolta da un'impressionante serie di casi criminali. Reati bizzarri e inspiegabili, che appaiono in contemporanea, sembrano non avere capo né coda, seminano morti a ripetizione ed esigono inchieste rapide ed incisive. Qualunque poliziotto perderebbe la testa di fronte a una tale babele di crimini, ma non l'ispettore Jack Frost, protagonista fisso dei romanzi di R.D. Wingfield, esilarante incrocio tra Andy Capp e il tenente Colombo.

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'.