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A Killing Frost | 
 enlarge | Author: R.d. Wingfield
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 748
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0593060474
EAN: 9780593060476
ASIN: 0593060474
Publication Date: April 7, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW BOOK. STOCKED IN THE UK AND SENT OUT IN 2 WORKING DAYS.
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Excellent April 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's been a long time coming but well worth the wait mutiple story lines
Frost is a great British creation couldn't put it down
Brilliant! April 10, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As you'd expect from R. D. Wingfield, this is a cracking read - funny, dark and fast. Frost is at his unorthodox best when pitted against his slimy nemesis DCI Skinner, and there are so many twists and turns you just can't put the book down. If you're new to Frost, start with this one and you'll be hooked.
Worth the wait April 9, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Well, it has been a long time coming, but well worth the wait.
If you know Frost from the television series, then you don't know what you have been missing with the novels. They are far edgier and irreverent than the series could ever be. Frost is a darker character in the books, and more interesting with it, and if his humour sails close to the wind, and his methods sometimes leave a lot to be desired, Frost's cheery debunking of authority redeems him. Bringing the criminals to book is just one side of his character, for he is often at odds with the petty-minded and the sycophantic. It is his ability to crash into a scene and take the pompous down a peg or two which is a delight to read.
R D Wingfield delivers a tour-de-force of a novel. The dialogue is spot-on and had me in stitches at times, and his ability to juggle plots and cases defies belief. I don't think I know any other writer who can make it seem so effortless. Frost is his usual irascible and irreverent self. Even Frost's smarmy nemesis, Mullett, is upstaged by Chief Inspector Skinner, a dyed-in-the-wool b*stard, who is determined to make his mark at Denton Police Station and land Frost in hot water.
Very difficult to name a favourite, but A KILLING FROST is up there with HARD FROST and A TOUCH OF FROST for me.
All six novels represent a crimewriter, who not the most prolific, never dropped his standards. Read this, then go and buy the others!
Superb Crime Writing April 7, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Have waited for this follow up for a long long time, and yet again it doesn't diasappoint. There are no flaws in Wingfield's pacy scripts, filled with witty dialogue and twists and turns. Am only sad that he died before I could thank him for his top quality efforts with Frost. For those of you who have seen the television spin off, don't imagine these books are anything like it. They are just so much better.
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