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Jack Frost Books in Order

Jack Frost appears in 12 books, published between 1986 and 2019. The first book is Frost at Christmas (1986) and the newest is The Murder Map (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1986–2019
Pages on record
3,633 in 9 of 12 books
Reading time
61–91 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,633 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Jack Frost is a police detective in a run of English crime novels, and the character carries 12 catalogued books published between 1986 and 2019. R.D. Wingfield is credited on 6 of them, James Henry on 4 and Danny Miller on 2. Frost at Christmas (1986) and A Touch of Frost (1987) open the sequence, which continues through Night Frost and Hard Frost (1992), Winter Frost (1999), A Killing Frost (2008), First Frost (2011), Fatal Frost (2012), Morning Frost (2013), Frost at Midnight (2017) and The Murder Map (2019). The listing splits into DI Jack Frost and a Detective Jack Frost Prequel heading. Subject tags name police procedural and traditional mystery, murder, England and London.

How many Jack Frost books are there?

Jack Frost appears in 12 books, released between 1986 and 2019.

Jack Frost Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Jack Frost 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)
  7. Cover of First Frost by James Henry, book 1 of the Detective Jack Frost Prequel series (2011)
  8. Cover of Fatal Frost by James Henry, book 2 of the Detective Jack Frost Prequel series (2012)
  9. Cover of Morning Frost by James Henry, book 3 of the Detective Jack Frost Prequel series (2013)
  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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  7. 7
    First FrostDetective Jack Frost Prequel #12011 · 460 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011460
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  8. 8
    Fatal FrostDetective Jack Frost Prequel #22012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  9. 9
    Morning FrostDetective Jack Frost Prequel #32013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  10. 10
    Frost at MidnightDetective Jack Frost Prequel #42017 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017352
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  11. 11
    A Lethal FrostDetective Jack Frost Prequel #52018 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018352
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  12. 12
    The Murder MapDetective Jack Frost Prequel #62019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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Do you have to read Jack Frost books in order?

You should read the Jack Frost books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Jack Frost book also stands alone.

Where to start with Jack Frost

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

What is the newest Jack Frost book?

The Murder Map (2019) is the newest Jack Frost book released so far.

Is there a new Jack Frost book coming?

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

Jack Frost at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Jack Frost title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Jack Frost books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,633 pages across the 9 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jack Frost books, 6 of 12, were published in the 2010s.
Attribution
Of the 12 titles, 6 are credited to R.D. Wingfield, 4 to James Henry and 2 to Danny Miller.

What the Jack Frost books are about

All 12 Jack Frost 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 10 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.