Night Frost

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Night Frost
First edition
AuthorR. D. Wingfield
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesA Touch of Frost
GenreMystery novel
PublisherConstable
Publication date
1992
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Audio Book
Pages432 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN0-09-470960-2 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC24792026
Preceded byA Touch of Frost 
Followed byHard Frost 

Night Frost is a novel by R. D. Wingfield in the popular series featuring Detective Inspector Jack Frost, coarse, crude, slapdash – and holder of the George Cross. The novel was filmed for the ITV detective series A Touch of Frost.

Plot introduction[edit]

A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison-pen letters...

In uncertain charge of the investigations is Detective Inspector Jack Frost, crumpled, slapdash and foul-mouthed as ever. He tries to cope despite inadequate back-up, but there is never enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up and the vicious killings go on. So Frost has to cut corners and take risks, knowing that his divisional commander will throw him to the wolves if anything goes wrong. And for Frost, things always go wrong...

Release details[edit]

  • 1992, UK, Constable (ISBN 0-09-470960-2), Pub date ? March 1992, hardback (First edition)
  • 1992, UK, Corgi Books (ISBN 0-552-13985-8), Pub date ? December 1992, paperback
  • 1993, UK, Magna Large Print Books (ISBN 0-7505-0566-4), Pub date ? December 1993, hardback
  • 1995, USA, Crimeline, Bantam Books (ISBN 0-553-57167-2), Pub date ? May 1995, paperback
  • 1997, UK, Corgi Adult (ISBN 0-552-14558-0), Pub date ? January 1997, paperback
  • 1998, UK, ISIS Audio Books (ISBN 0-7531-0316-8), Pub date ? March 1998, audio book (Complete & Unabridged)
  • 2000, UK, ISIS Audio Books (ISBN 0-7531-0964-6), Pub date ? August 2000, audio book
  • 2005, UK, Corgi Books (ISBN 0-00-720973-8), Pub date ? July 2005, audio book