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    Frost At Christmas
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    Frost At Christmas

    Written by R. D. Wingfield

    Narrated by David Jason

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    About this audiobook

    ‘Tis the season of good cheer throughout the world, but with only ten days to Christmas, on a bitter December afternoon eight-year-old, Tracy Uphill goes missing.

    Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Police Force’s scruffiest officer, knows they only have a limited time to find her – and he’s also got to nursemaid Detective Constable Cliver Barnard, whose uncle just happens to be the Chief Constable.

    Then the bodies start to pile up and a crime committed many years before leads a murderer to kill again.

    R.D. Wingfield is in pulse-racing form as his always irreverent, always likeable hero with the common touch discovers whodunnit and why.

    Read by David Jason, star of the major TV series A Touch of Frost.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 15, 2005
    ISBN9780007218356
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    Frost At Christmas
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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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    • 2/5
      This is the first in the Inspector Frost detective series. It is the story of a missing child. I have read a number of detective series and was looking forward to a new one, but that will not happen with this series. I didn't get very far into the book because i disliked the dialogue. Found it ridiculous. Gave it two stars.
    • 4/5
      Ten days before Christmas, 8 year old Tracy Uphill daughter of a prostitute fails to return home from evening Sunday school. DI Jack Frost is assigned the case. While following the advice of a mystic who tells him where Tracey is buried, his team discovers the body of a bank messenger who has been missing for 32 years. Now Jack has two cases to work plus all the paper work he has failed to complete from his previous cases and he is constantly harassed by his superiors who do not appreciate his methods. He is also training a new assistant, Clive Barnard, who also doesn't appreciate Jack's methods.I have read other Frost novels and found them very dark in tone. This one was full of humourous moments that made me laugh out loud.
    • 5/5
      Frost at Christmas - R D Wingfield *****Like most people who grew up in the 90’s I remember watching David Jason transform himself from the loveable rogue Delboy into a middle aged grumpy old detective, and like many millions of those people I loved the character and followed him over the next decade or so. There were 42 episodes made , although surprisingly only 6 novels were written. The premier TV episode was fittingly based upon the first published novel ‘Frost at Christmas’ and remained fairly true to the storyline.We follow Frost, a very different sort of detective than you would normally find in these types of books. He is slovenly, crude, sexist and sloppy in both his professional and private life, he doesn’t really care what people think of him and he appears to be loved and loathed by his superiors and colleagues with almost equal measure. Frost is the man to put on the case when you have no one else available and when the leading investigator is taken ill during a major operation searching for an abducted child the file is begrudgingly placed in his lap. Seemingly bumbling along (almost like a British Columbo) he pieces together various bits of evidence and follows his nose, I suppose you could say he is an old fashioned type of copper that acts more on instinct than facts.I loved this book, at times it was funny at others very sad, but always with a true to life feel that made you a part of his world. I quite like the flawed hero that isn’t some sort of superman but has as many good points as bad in his character. I have read that Wingfield planned to kill off Frost at the end of the first book and it was to have been published as a stand alone novel. I think the whole world should be grateful that he had a change of heart. I can’t wait to pick up the next one.
    • 4/5
      I can't decide if Detective Inspector Jack Frost is a misunderstood genius or if he's just incredibly lucky. While he exhibits traits of someone who clearly knows what he's doing; he mostly seems like a bumbling jerk who happens to fall into the right answers.

      By saying that, I certainly don't mean for it to seem like I was irritated. Look at Dr. House on... House. He berates his patients as well as his colleges and is certainly without tact - but he always gets the job done. Frost shows many of those traits I love in House but adds a more cheery, less-depressing attitude that made this book really fun to read.

      The mystery was a little less than stellar but Wingfield rarely focused on one thing at a time, keeping things lively and moving along at a swift pace. Frost's dry humor and his relationship with fellow officer, Clive Barnard, held my interest throughout. Barnard was the perfect accompaniment along the way; voluntarily putting up with whatever Frost threw his way. I'm hoping he sticks around in the future books.

      I'm pleased to admit that I genuinely laughed out loud on more than a few occasions, which was a little unexpected. In reading a few reviews on here, the comedy is something that isn't really given its due.
    • 4/5
      Although I wasn't sure at first that I could stand the crude vulgarity of Inspector Jack Frost, this mystery has a very good plot, starting right away with a surprising grabber. Wingfield manages to take several seemingly unrelated threads and twist them into an intricate knot in the end and I, along with DC Clive Barnard, came to find that I liked Frost more than I had originally thought possible. I will be reading more of this series.
    • 4/5
      The first book about Frost, giving roughly the contents of the first film of the tv-series. The storylines differ a bit from those in the film. And the character Frost certainly differs. Anyway, those who love the tv-series should also read the book. The book is always better than the film, as we all know. I gave it four stars, maybe because the plot did not contain many surprises after having seen the tv film. I enjoyed reading this book nevertheless, and more Frost books will certainly appear on my lists.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book so much that I began watching the British tv series with David Jason playing Inspector Frost. Sooner or later I'll probably read more of the books as well. Recommended for those who enjoy British police procedurals with crusty, maverick detectives.
    • 4/5
      Frost is a crude, loud, and a slob. His superiors can't stand him. His colleagues love him, because despite the outer shell, he's a good cop. He sees things. And now he's stuck with a new partner, who happens to be the chief constable's nephew, and they're hunting for a missing child. This is the first in the series, and if you're mainly a cozy reader, this is NOT for you. It's not explicit, exactly, but it's totally different in feel. Lots of sexual innuendos and like I said, fairly crude. Somehow, though, I enjoyed this one. The characters are complicated and there's some substance to the story. May or may not read further in the series, but this was worth reading. 3.5 stars
    • 4/5
      This is the first book about Inspector Jack Frost, the source-material for the tv-series "A Touch of Frost". The book is considerably darker than what I recall the series being, and Jack is portrayed as a less likable character, but in the "you wouldn't expect like him, but you can't stop yourself from taking his side anyway"-antihero kind of way. The problem is that this is done without any subtlety, which got rather annoying after a while. Frost will be excessively obnoxious in a childish way, but a few pages later something is done or said that redeems him. The gradual revealing of Frost's intriguing, dark, history (because every conflicted detective needs one) seems forced, as if it was inserted into the book wherever an excuse could be found to fit it in. All that aside, this is a decent crime-mystery. The main plot is quite good, and the story held up better than I thought it would. Unfortunately there are also a lot of distracting elements. Among them are more than a few sexually themed asides, which purposefully border on what would be considered legally or morally acceptable. In some places it is relevant and justified by the story, but elsewhere it seems to be used, excessively, to build under the already artificial-seeming 'dark' mood and tone of the story. Still though, this is a good detective-story, but it could probably have been told a bit better.
    • 4/5
      The curmudgeonly Frost juggles numerous cases whilst fending off his Chief Constable and wet nursing the new recruit.There is nothing meretricious about this book; reading it will not increase one's knowledge of the human condition by a wit, but it is a thunderingly good, enjoyable read.Incidentally, the televisual version of 'Frost', is the closest to the book of any that I have read.