It's proving to be a busy Christmas-time for DI Jack Frost. At the top of his list is the murder of DC Tim Fox, a member of the regional crime squad who was shot in a park. Fox was a member of a team headed by Det. Superintendent Larry Finlay investigating a major car theft ring specializing in high-end automobiles. Of particular interest to Frost is the envelope in the glove box of his car containing £1000 in cash in small bills. Jack subsequently learns that Fox was regularly making sizable deposits to a building society account. The regional crime squad and their Super are less than cooperative and when Jack participates in a raid on a local chop shop, they conveniently find the gun that killed Fox in a desk drawer. HFrost also learns that Fox's wife was having an affairs s with one of his mates, DI Mark Newcombe. It's all too convenient as far as Jack in concerned. Elsewhere, Frost investigates an accident at the local power plant when Hugh Cockcroft, an employee, goes crashing through a barrier while on a cigarette break and is buried under several tons of coal. As well, someone is shooting cats, much to the chagrin of their owners.
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