‘Fast-paced and wryly amusing… A delight from start to finish’ – Val McDermid
Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.
A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missingA psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. Frost is up to his neck in crime.
And the problems keep coming.
The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped offThe small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife''s body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy, accompanied by one of the child''s fingers...
Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisisBut beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary powers of detection…
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
448 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum |
1996-08-01 |
ISBN |
9780552144094 |