A Touch of Frost

In "Care and Protection" Frost investigates a missing child case, as his terminally ill wife languishes in bed. While searching for the missing girl, a chance digging turns up a 30 year-old skeleton chained to a strongbox. A former bank employee whose past links him to the strongbox is murdered and Frost must find his killer.

"Not with Kindness" features Frost grieving for his recently deceased wife and playing host to her intolerable sister from the States who comes to Denton for the funeral. Frost goes on the trail of a missing teenager. A victim of threatening phone calls, wakes in the middle of the night to find her home engulfed in flames by a suspicious fire that claims the life of her husband.

In "Conclusions" an elderly man is killed in a hit-and-run that involves a prominent local official's son. A casino is robbed of the night's takings. An armed and dangerous fugitive takes a pair of hostages and Frost must decide whether to put himself in their place.