# Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant (Paperback)

**Under the searing sun, secrets simmer and betrayal lies thick in this claustrophobic, explosive new thriller from** **_Sunday Times_ bestselling author Sabine Durrant.  
  
'A real scorcher. You won't want to miss this one!'** HARLAN COBEN  
**'Gloriously dark and wildly engrossing'** LISA JEWELL  
**'Sun-drenched and** **dripping with suspense**, **this is the perfect summer read**' LUCY CLARKE  
  
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**Former 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.  
  
So 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.  
  
It 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.  
  
But 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.  
  
As 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.  
  
At least, it looks like an accident...  
  
**Set over one blazing Mediterranean summer, Sabine Durrant's new thriller is tense, claustrophobic and utterly gripping.**  
  
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**Praise for _Dead Heat_ . . .**  
  
'No one writes suspense like Sabine Durrant. _Dead Heat_ is **perfection**' Clare Mackintosh, _Sunday Times_ bestselling author of _A Game of Lies_  
  
'I **loved this book**. The descriptions are **so beautiful** that you almost don't notice the **brilliance of the plotting**' Elly Griffiths  
  
'**Better than every season of _The White Lotus_** spun into one, and **drenched with danger, sex, and revenge**. **Sensational summer reading**' Sarah Hilary, author of _Black Thorn_  
  
'A **deliciously dark, modern Greek Gatsby**' Julia Crouch, author of _The Surprise Party_  
  
  
'**Tense, clever and so vividly written**' Ruth Mancini, _Sunday Times_ bestselling author of _The Woman on the Ledge_  
  
  
'An **unputdownable, unguessable, sun-drenched thriller**' Erin Kelly, bestselling author of _He Said She Said_  
  
'**Drenched in atmosphere and menace** with a **Greek setting to die for. Literally.**' Tammy Cohen, _The Wedding Party_  
  
  
'**Compelling, evocative and fiendishly smart**, this unsettling literary thriller is **a five-star triumph**' Isabelle Broom, author of _The Orange House_  
  
  
'**I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I loved it!**' Marika Cobbold, author of _On Hampstead Heath_  
  
  
'A **genius** story of **infatuation and twisted love**, as brooding as a Greek heatwave' Jane Thynne, author of _Midnight in Vienna_  
  
'**Dangerously addictive**' Esther Freud, author of _My Sister and Other Lovers_

## Details

- **Price:** 18.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Century
- **Type:** Sabine Durrant
- **Tags:** All Books, Fiction, Thrillers

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> Updated: 2026-09-08