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Description: Frost at Christmas : Paperback : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc : 9780553571684 : 0553571680 : 01 Dec 1995 : Bah humbug, says Inspector Frost, whose season is soured not only in a search for a missing child, but by his new assistant, Clive Barnard, the boss's nephew. As Frost looks for the girl with the help of a dubious psychic, he finds a long-buried corpse. Then, to make Christmas even bluer, an old unsolved case is reopened. The Book Depository Frost at Christmas by R.D. Wingfield - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780553571684
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Author: M. Dowden
Rating: 5
Review: When this was first written R D Wingfield alas had this rejected, and it was not until it was accepted abroad that this was then eventually published in this country. As with other books so this really came into its own with the popular TV series, which meant many people thus started buying this and the other books in the series. As this one opens you will see that there is a question over whether DI Frost will live, as he is found shot, on the floor of a bungalow, accused by the homeowner as a burglar. From this prologue so we are taken back into time to a few days earlier, and a disappearance of an eight-year-old girl. As we follow the story, so we see Frost’s workload becoming increasingly heavier, because as with real life there is more than one crime to be solved, but of course the missing girl is the priority. Disappearing mysteriously when she should have just walked up the road from the local church, after Sunday school. With the mother not reporting the disappearance for a few hours, we are only ten days away from Christmas, and it is cold and windy, with snow starting to come in. Having to show the Chief Constable’s nephew the ropes as well as finding an old skeleton so things do not look that good. Why this and the other books in the series are so popular is because our main detective is quite normal, his wife is dead, and he always comes up with excuses to remain at work. Not very punctilious with his paperwork and ready to cut corners if needs be so I think many can understand and relate to him. He does have moments of brilliance, although at times coming to a correct conclusion, he does not necessarily do so by sound logical reasoning. As we follow the original case, so we see tendrils emerging that due to circumstances means that Frost suddenly is able to solve other crimes inadvertently, which he puts down to intuition and luck. We are also taken into the real world of politics within the police, and how some want to reach the dizzying heights of being in the top job, and do not mind who they step on to get there. There is also the stark realism here, in that people may be well liked and respected within their own sphere, but hated by others, and that a lot of people have dirty secrets that they wish to remain hidden, so very much like real life.
Author: C.G. Gardiner
Rating: 3
Review: The novel is very much like a screenplay transferred to novel form. Interesting from the good plot line, but leaves a lot of character depth out. David Jason's TV version at least added some humanity to the character, where these novels leave all that aside. Not as good as the TV version for me, I regret
