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Winter Frost

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This book is more of the same from Wingfield. If you like the Frost character and his irreverent interaction with authority, this is the book for you. I was drawn into the story lines and my attention was captured until the last page. I hope the gap between books will not be so long.

Every Frost book I read is such supurb pleasure that I want to just keep reading it. This one is no exception. It is not Agatha Christie, nor is it Shakespeare. It is classic, never-the-less. It wont suit all - some people prefer more long words, or their sense of humour is too restricted. Frost books keep me on the edge of the seat, and emotionally charged. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I am just too absorbed. Winter Frost (like all the others) had just these effects. The TV series is good (David Jason is excellant) but the books are much more involved and dark. If you've read and enjoyed one book - you'll love the rest. If you haven't, then give it a try! Because although each book has some similarities (LIFE is LIKE THAT) it is equally true to say that each book is different. If one reviewer tells you the characters are cardboard, then I say I know several of the characters in real life. different names, but it's them never-the-less. maybe that makes real life cardboard. I dunno. But I just love these books.

ps. Mr R.D. Wingfield. PLEASE write another soon.

And I'll have to wait for the next book of this "Jack Frost" series for a long time. Maybe two years? Or more than that?

He has been the same since I first read "A touch of Frost.": a dirty, lousy, lazy, but lovable bloke. He is very charming especially when the situation around him gets worse and worse. It's because, I think, he never blame anyone but himself under any pressure.

If you haven't recently met a charming man, go for this book and find him very attractive!!!

If your a fan of the series as I am, this novel was worth the wait. Frost is up to his elbows in crime again with a serial killer of prostitutes and another rapist and killer of small children among his problems. Of course, the bureaucratic Mullet is not helping things either. Frost attacks these problems with his usual wit and style, yet Frost also experiences a great deal of self doubt in this instance as the investigations drag on due to dead ends and the lack of resources and manpower. Fans of the TV series will recognize that sense of melancholy that David Jason so well portrays.

It was a great and entertaining read and the humor had me laughing out loud. Five stars

I have been a fan of DI Jack Frost ever since I first saw the British TV series and then read the first three books in order: Frost at Christmas, A Touch of Frost, and Night Frost. After that it was a long wait for Hard Frost and an even longer wait for Winter Frost. It is unusual for a character and a book series to change so much as the Frost-series has done. The raw humour has been toned down, and the personage is more realistic. The jokes are still there (very much the same jokes, in fact) but the undertone of desperation is more visible. The police procedures are still as believable and well described, the only unrealistic thing is how a city the size of Denton (which I always imagined having between 100 and 200,000 inhabitants) having so many murders, serial killers, rapists, etc. If you add them up from all the books, they make a pretty sum.

All in all, a delightful read just like the earlier. The humour, which was what set the books apart from Colin Dexter et.al, is partly gone but I still hold DI Jack Frost to be, together with Inspector Morse, the best modern literary police figure.

Just one question to Mr Wingfield: When will we ever get to heat the whole joke about the bloke who drank a spittoon for a bet??

If you love British procedurals with a healthy dollop of dark humor, you are in for a rare treat. Mr. Wingfield Det.Inspector Jack Frost novels, unfortunately only 6 of them, are among the very best. In the city of Denton, product of author's imagination, people commit crimes left and right. The police is overwhelmed, especially Det. Frost. The book is very dark and gritty, but full of irresistible and irreverant humor. Mr. Wingfield Jack Frost is in many ways different than the TV version, toned down not to offend anybody. This is much richer and realistic portrayal of the plodding police work, far away from the glamor of the American TV shows with their pretty policemen.

A well-written story about a quirky detective who is always in trouble with the brass. They also made a TV series about the stories. I borrow them from my library's video selection.

Although the fifth installment in one of the best Procedural series ever written, Winter Frost (like the other Frost novels) stands on its own. If you have been searching far and wide for a good novel, look no further.

I read this book on holidays having just read Philip Roths "The human stain".
It is readable but repetitive and stereotypical. I enjoy the TV series but in contrast to conventional wisdom the book is disappointing in comparison
Frost comes across as a combination of Colombo and Benny Hill in a Carry on film. The characters are all cardboard cut outs and the ubiquituous bacon sandwiches ,page 3 females and viagra fired men becomes tiresome.
A mindless read after a heavy book or 10 pints of lager!!

This is my introduction to Jack Frost and I didn't enjoy it. Total lack of respect for women. Is this a British thing calling all females cows? A more disreputable character I would hate to meet. I can't find one good thing to say about this author. The story was way too long and left a lot of holes not filled in. Course who would have suspected 2 women, but after rounding up everyone Frost could he was bound to stumble on the actual perps. I have read many, many better mysteries. Try Anne Perry sometime. She writes about Dectectives in London too.