{"product_id":"dead-heat-1","title":"Dead Heat: The gripping must-read crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lie With Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnder the searing sun, secrets simmer and betrayal lies thick in this claustrophobic, explosive new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Sabine Durrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A real scorcher. You won't want to miss this one!' HARLAN COBEN\u003cbr\u003e'Gloriously dark and wildly engrossing' LISA JEWELL\u003cbr\u003e'Sun-drenched and dripping with suspense, this is the perfect summer read’ LUCY CLARKE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e----\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer journalist Matt Grimshaw's life is at a low ebb. He's been 'let go' by the paper where he's worked for years, and his relationship with his long-term girlfriend has come unstuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when an invitation arrives from his two closest friends, Celia and Adam Murphy, to join them at their house in Greece, he jumps at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may be harsh and unwelcoming on the Mani Peninsula but Matt determines to stay there for the whole summer and to write his much put-off screen-play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then the Murphys plus children arrive, and a wealthy newcomer to the area starts throwing loud and lavish parties in his big house across the bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the nights become hotter and the parties wilder, everyone's motivations darken. Envy rises, resentments grow - until a terrible accident stops the summer in its tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least, it looks like an accident…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over one blazing Mediterranean summer, Sabine Durrant’s new thriller is tense, claustrophobic and utterly gripping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Dead Heat . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘No one writes suspense like Sabine Durrant. Dead Heat is perfection’ Clare Mackintosh, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Game of Lies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I loved this book. The descriptions are so beautiful that you almost don’t notice the brilliance of the plotting’ Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of The Frozen People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Better than every season of The White Lotus spun into one, and drenched with danger, sex, and revenge' Sarah Hilary, author of Black Thorn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A deliciously dark, modern Greek Gatsby’ Julia Crouch, author of The Surprise Party\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tense, clever and so vividly written' Ruth Mancini, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An unputdownable, unguessable, sun-drenched thriller’ Erin Kelly, bestselling author of He Said She Said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Drenched in atmosphere and menace with a Greek setting to die for. Literally.' Tammy Cohen, The Wedding Party\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Compelling, evocative and fiendishly smart, this unsettling literary thriller is a five-star triumph’ Isabelle Broom, author of The Orange House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I loved it!' Marika Cobbold, author of On Hampstead Heath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A genius story of infatuation and twisted love, as brooding as a Greek heatwave' Jane Thynne, author of Midnight in Vienna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Dangerously addictive’ Esther Freud, author of My Sister and Other Lovers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Century","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46015242797227,"sku":"9781529952957","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/3732\/9579\/files\/photo1_09c1b794-2dd1-4d2d-a70f-63540595b35f.jpg?v=1767404344","url":"https:\/\/notjustbooks.com.au\/products\/dead-heat-1","provider":"Not Just Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}