{"product_id":"hard-frost-9780552144094","title":"Hard Frost","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFast-paced and wryly amusing A delight from start to finish'  Val McDermid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd the problems keep coming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The 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... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis. \u003cb\u003eBut beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary powers of detection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrime pick of the year. Darker, funnier and more violent than the television adaptation, but just as high quality * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eInspector Jack Frost (is) deplorable yet funny, a comic monster on the side of the angels * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eWhat impresses me most is the extraordinarily vivid interplay between the police characters. Frost himself is splendidly drawn * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eFast paced and wryly amusing, Frost's latest outing is a delight from start to finish, a unique and unlikely blend of humour and tragedy. More please -- Val McDermid * Manchester Evening News *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735036899671,"sku":"9780552144094","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hard-frost-9780552144094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}