‘A funny, frantic, utterly refreshing brew’ – Sunday Telegraph
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, officially on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory - and then the daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing.And now a wave of crime threatens to submerge sleepy Denton.
A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-and-run offence and, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all is under control.
Now he has only to convince himself...
- ISBN10 0094695202
- ISBN13 9780094695207
- Publish Date 5 February 1990 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 356
- Language English