A Touch of Frost (DI Jack Frost series)

The sleepy town of Denton has never known anything like the crime wave which now threatens to submerge it. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-and-run offense and, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. Detective Frost is reeling under the strain, but he manages to assure his superiors that all is under control. Now he has only to convince himself.