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Hard Frost

By: R. D. Wingfield
Narrated by: Robin Browne
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Detective Inspector Jack Frost knelt down beside the tiny body. Who did this to you, sonny? he asked, his face tight with compassion. The boy was eight years old, bound and gagged, and stripped naked. He had been dead for some seven or eight hours.

Frost should have been on holiday, he had sneaked back into the station late at night to help himself to some of Divisional Commander Mullett's cigarettes and this case had been dumped on him as no other officers were available. And then another boy is reported missing. The following day, the ransom demand: £250,000 or the boy dies like the first.

Coarse and insubordinate, fearless and intuitive, D.I. Jack Frost stumbles from crisis to crisis as he tries to cope with a child-stabbing pervert, the discovery of a decomposing body in a coal bunker, a suspicious suicide, an equally suspicious burglary and the abduction of a teenage girl.

©1995 R. D. Wingfield (P)1997 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

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Frost's a loveable rogue but his crudeness can grate at times, then you love him again. Wingfield is great at weaving so many stories together.

Well paced and performed narration.

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Frost doggedly solved a selection of cases,Mullet worried about the overtones someone else gets the credit
SNAFU

Excellent

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a great listen excellent story with many twists and turns very well told wouldn't have missed it for the world, great great great l am ordering another story.

brilliant

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A quality Frost offering with largely believable storyline somewhat stretched in places.such a pity that the narrator totally destroys the wonderful image of Frost which Thorne’s narration achieves. His performance would have made it 5 stars all round.

O For Steven thorne’s narration

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I love the Frost books. Wingfield has a way of writing that is so gripping and real. Narration is perfect too!

The best in every way!!

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Fantastic story, really enjoyed it, t only negative is that the narration does an awful job of frosts voice and speech, makes him sound so weird...the other stories narrated by others are much better in that regard

Great story, narration of Frost a bit grating

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The story is interesting and the author cleverly pulls the different threads of the plot together to reach a satisfying conclusion. It was slightly irritating that some of the characters seemed to share the same shortlist of swear words and use them over and over again. I did not like the way the women characters were treated, or spoken about - there is nothing PC about this book. This narrator uses an annoying whiny voice for Frost’s character but does not put enough variety into some of the other voices to easily distinguish one from another.

Same old Frost

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Frost the sexist nicotine obsessed copper saves the day, shame his voice is wrong.

Frost at his best and worst.

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Pity about the reader.
Other readers have performed much better on previous books - nearly spoilt this really well written story.

Excellent story

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Frost of the novels is very much a character of his time. Its pointless to attack Frost as sexist , racist etc. Just as pointless as it is to to attack Sherlock Holmes for jingoism, snobbery, patronising attitudes and god knows what else. These characters actions - rather like our own are like flies trapped in amber. Perhaps forty years on, we would like to have done and said difference, but as the folksong says - that is how befell on the day.

In point of fact Frost draws it pretty mild. Compare and contrast the policemen in Wambaughs The Choirboys - written about the same times as the first Frost noivels.

One of the problems with Frost is of course that they kept churning out TV episodes long after Frost would have been collecting his pension, it was another century, another era. The TV Frost was very PC, Mr Mullet defended him, The anodyne TV creation is unrecognisable.

As for the plots being repetitive, i would suggest that there is so much truth and accuracy in the depiction of the characters and their relationship that you haven't noticed the plot being significantly different every time. and the reason for this is that when you reach a certain age - you will have and worked for many many MUlletsLovers of status and power without responsibility.Certainly if you're a teacher you will many cases where the 'difficult' pupils are controlled with difficulty and sometimes danger by hardworking committed teachers - frequently working for a boss whose chief deiight is to drop badmouth and generally drop their stff in the hot and smelly

A word in defence of Frost and RD Wingfield.

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