First Frost: DI Jack Frost series 1 - Hardcover

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James Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt and Henry Sutton.

James Gurbutt is a publisher at Constable & Robinson, R.D. Wingfield's original publisher back in the 1980s.

Henry Sutton is the author of seven novels under his own name. His latest, Get Me Out Of Here, was published by Harvill Secker in January 2010. He is the Books Editor of the Daily Mirror, and teaches creative writing at the UEA.

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Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country's on alert for an outbreak of rabies.

DS Jack Frost is working under his mentor and inspiration, DI Bert Williams, and coping badly with his increasingly strained marriage, which is probably not helped by the fact that he never goes home...

Superintendent Stanley Mullett has been at Denton for only six months and is desperately trying to restore order within the chronically depleted ranks, while refurbishing the dilapidated Eagle Lane HQ.

But DI Williams is nowhere to be seen, and DI Allen has failed to return from his walking holiday. So when a twelve-year-old girl goes missing from a department store changing room, Mullett has no option but to put DS Frost in charge of the investigation.

Meanwhile the team becomes ever more stretched as a gang of youths terrorizes a housing estate, a toddler is mauled in broad daylight and a series of armed bank raids is carried out in the county.

And Frost seems to be the only one seriously trying to locate DI Williams...