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Hard Frost

By: R. D. Wingfield
Narrated by: Robin Browne
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Summary

Detective Inspector Jack Frost knelt down beside the tiny body. Who did this to you, sonny? he asked, his face tight with compassion. The boy was eight years old, bound and gagged, and stripped naked. He had been dead for some seven or eight hours.

Frost should have been on holiday, he had sneaked back into the station late at night to help himself to some of Divisional Commander Mullett's cigarettes and this case had been dumped on him as no other officers were available. And then another boy is reported missing. The following day, the ransom demand: £250,000 or the boy dies like the first.

Coarse and insubordinate, fearless and intuitive, D.I. Jack Frost stumbles from crisis to crisis as he tries to cope with a child-stabbing pervert, the discovery of a decomposing body in a coal bunker, a suspicious suicide, an equally suspicious burglary and the abduction of a teenage girl.

©1995 R. D. Wingfield (P)1997 Isis Publishing Ltd

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starting to get a bit to repetitive

still enjoyed this book but sadly unlike the greats like PD James the stories in these types of series always start to become repetitive and this is no exception. Mullet continued to treat Frost badly and Frost still ignored , yet another new detective arrives in this small town who thinks Frost is a twit only to be proved wrong.. That then makes the back story of the main plot so very unbelievable and boring that the desire to skip through is hard to resist. Have already purchased the next book so will give it ago but if its the same yet again will return and try something/someone else

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This is the fourth in the excellent Frost series

I advise anyone who has listened to and enjoyed the earlier unabridged Frost books by R.D. Wingfield to take this one also when they come to it in the series. Certainly it is worth working through the series in order.

Some of the other commentators here are dismissive about Robin Browne's reading, as he reads this. In the unabridged series as it is here on Audible this narrator alternates with the other narrator Stephen Thorn, and some seem to like one better than the other. Thorn does more different voices for the characters, that is true, but in this one there are quite a few new accents on the one Robin Browne did earlier in the series, in particular Burton has an interesting NW English one. Where I think Browne shows he is just as good as Stephen thorn though is on the way his compelling reading of the non-direct speech parts of the story draw our attention in my view better than the way the other narrator does it.

As far as the story itself goes, who can fault it? The things which delighted you in the first three books will delight you again. The things which annoyed you will annoy you again. There is even more smoking, coarseness and sexism in this one than the previous one, either you can get around the fact that this is a description of England as it was and to a degree still is in certain circles or you can't.

The denouement in the final hour is very satisfactory. I won't spoil it by saying any more than that.

In sum, over 14 hours of really good entertainment. I don't advise buying the abridged versions of these books just because they are read by the actor you might expect - every minute of this is a good listen and so it follows that if you get the abridged ones you must be missing out on something.

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poor narration

The narrator chose to give Frost the most annoying voice akin to an uneducated youth - totally spoiled the whole thing so just gave up listening. Not recommended.

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the plot

i love these Jack Frost books. this one didn't disapoint. Good story with flashes of humour

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Very Good Book

Frost in the book is a lot different to the tv one 😂.I really enjoyed the book and will definitely listen to more of them.

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Good story but….

Very sexist indeed, written in that era, however the author seems to have a fixation on pubescent girls, judging from this & previous books. Didn’t like R Browne’s irritating voice for Frost, made him seem even more like an unlikeable old perv.

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I love it

I like how it always keeps you on your toes with out being complicated it’s great

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Narration! Narration! Narration!!

The most often read complaint in reviews is about bad. Aeration. Doesn’t anyone listen before the audible book is made available. The brilliant Frost is reduced to a strangled, nasal abomination
Audible addict 700*

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Excellent

Frost doggedly solved a selection of cases,Mullet worried about the overtones someone else gets the credit
SNAFU

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Hard Frost

I enjoyed the story and luckily had read the book before . It was hard work getting through the narrators terrible accent for Frost . It just did not work and ruined the story . His normal reading voice is very pleasant, he just can’t do accents .

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