Jack Frost Books in Order

In 1981 Denton is gripped by recession, IRA threats and rumours of rabies when twelve year old Julie Hudson vanishes from a department store changing room. With his mentor DI Bert Williams missing too, DS Jack Frost stumbles through multiple crises, often his own worst enemy.

Britain is celebrating in May 1982, but Denton is dealing with uglier headlines. As the division's first black detective, DS Waters joins Jack Frost just as a wave of brutal burglaries, teenage murders and a missing girl case collide, testing both men and the town.

On the day Jack Frost buries his wife, Denton officers are dragged from the wake to scenes of mounting chaos: a severed hand in a field, a shot nightclub owner, arson attacks and a cyclist's suspicious death. Grieving or not, Frost has to keep going.

August 1983 finds Denton preparing for DS Waters's wedding when a young woman is found dead in the churchyard that should host the ceremony. Newly promoted and homeless, Jack Frost has to untangle the case fast or see his friend's big day collapse.