R.D. Wingfield's unforgettable Jack Frost returns in this gripping prequel to the bestselling series. A "Sunday Times "Top 10 Bestseller.
Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country's on alert for an outbreak of rabies. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is working under his mentor and inspiration DI Bert Williams, and coping badly with his increasingly strained marriage. But DI Williams is nowhere to be seen. So when a 12-year-old girl goes missing from a department store changing room, DS Frost is put in charge of the investigation.

While Denton police is busy dealing with a spate of local burglaries, the body of 15-year-old Samantha Evans is discovered in woodland next to the nearby railway track. Then a 15-year-old boy is found dead on Denton's golf course, his organs removed. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is sent to investigate.

Nowa guwernantka przybywa do dużej rezydencji, by opiekować się dwojgiem małych dzieci. Wkrótce potem następuje seria drobnych, ale dziwnych wydarzeń. Kobieta, próbując znaleźć odpowiedzi na pytania , zostaje wciągnięta w niejasną historię rezydencji Bly i jej mieszkańców.

Poziom: 2 / A2.1 (CEF) / KET (Cambridge)
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The new Essex-based crime series from the bestselling author of the DI Jack Frost prequels - perfect for fans of Peter James and Start MacBride

Wingfield's A TOUCH OF FROST, for anyone who loved watching David Jason as Jack Frost, and readers of sharply plotted detective crime novels. Denton is preparing for a wedding, with less than a week to go until Detective Sergeant Waters marries Kim Myles.

A body on an embankment. A blast at a farmhouse. A burden on Colchester CID 'Rounded characters, a terrific sense of time and place and masterful plotting . . . a 24-carat holiday read' Guardian July 1983, Essex. Fox Farm is, thanks to two corpses, neither picturesque nor peaceful. The body in its kitchen belongs to eminent historian Christopher Cliff, who has taken his own life. The second, found on the property boundary, remains unidentified. To catalyze his investigation, DI Nick Lowry enlists the services of DC Daniel Kenton and WPC Jane Gabriel. And the team soon find themselves...