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R.D. Wingfield Books in Order

6 books are credited to R.D. Wingfield, published between 1986 and 2008; 1 of them appeared after R.D. Wingfield's death in 2007. The first book is Frost at Christmas (1986) and the newest is A Killing Frost (2008). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
1986–2008
Total pages
2,469 across 6 books
Reading time
41–62 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,469 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

See all 6 books in order Printable R.D. Wingfield checklist

Detective Inspector Jack Frost is R.D. Wingfield's one creation and the whole of his catalogue. Wingfield, an English author and radio dramatist who lived from 1928 to 2007, wrote six Frost novels, from Frost at Christmas (1986) to A Killing Frost (2008). David Jason later played Frost in the television series A Touch of Frost, which shares its name with the second book. Police procedural set in England is the form throughout.

How many R.D. Wingfield books are there?

R.D. Wingfield has 6 books, released between 1986 and 2008. 1 of them were published after R.D. Wingfield's death in 2007.

R.D. Wingfield Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 R.D. Wingfield books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Frost at Christmas by R.D. Wingfield, book 1 of the DI Jack Frost series (1986)
  2. Cover of A Touch of Frost by R.D. Wingfield, book 2 of the DI Jack Frost series (1987)
  3. Cover of Night Frost by R.D. Wingfield, book 3 of the DI Jack Frost series (1992)
  4. Cover of Hard Frost by R.D. Wingfield, book 4 of the DI Jack Frost series (1992)
  5. Cover of Winter Frost by R.D. Wingfield, book 5 of the DI Jack Frost series (1999)
  6. Cover of A Killing Frost by R.D. Wingfield, book 6 of the DI Jack Frost series (2008)
  1. 1
    Frost at ChristmasDI Jack Frost #11986 · 280 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986280
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  2. 2
    A Touch of FrostDI Jack Frost #21987 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987368
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  3. 3
    Night FrostDI Jack Frost #31992 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992368
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  4. 4
    Hard FrostDI Jack Frost #41992 · 450 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992450
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  5. 5
    Winter FrostDI Jack Frost #51999 · 507 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999507
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  6. 6
    A Killing FrostDI Jack Frost #62008 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008496
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R.D. Wingfield books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

DI Jack Frost in order

6 books
  1. 1. Frost at Christmas
  2. 2. A Touch of Frost
  3. 3. Night Frost
  4. 4. Hard Frost
  5. 5. Winter Frost
  6. 6. A Killing Frost

Do you have to read R.D. Wingfield books in order?

You only need to read R.D. Wingfield books in order within the DI Jack Frost series, which holds 6 of the 6 R.D. Wingfield books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with R.D. Wingfield

Start with Frost at Christmas (1986), the earliest published title.

What is the newest R.D. Wingfield book?

A Killing Frost (2008) is the newest R.D. Wingfield book released so far.

Is there a new R.D. Wingfield book coming?

No next R.D. Wingfield book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

R.D. Wingfield at a glance

Died
R.D. Wingfield died in 2007, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to R.D. Wingfield are still being published after R.D. Wingfield's death in 2007; the newest appeared in 2008.
Release pace
R.D. Wingfield books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,469 pages across all 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 409 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most R.D. Wingfield books, 3 of 6, were published in the 1990s.

What the R.D. Wingfield books are about

All 6 R.D. Wingfield books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: frost, jack (fictitious character) is tagged on 6 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.