Dead Heat

Sabine Durrant is a fantastic writer… Dead Heat is a cracker * Jane Garvey, Times Radio *
Expertly constructed and guilefully written, it inevitably reminds you of Patricia Highsmith, but also of The Great Gatsby * Sunday Times *
Incredibly atmospheric and oppressive - the heat, the relationships, the events - it’s all sticky and woozy and hot and sandy and salty and languorous … this is the perfect book to read on a sun lounger * India Knight *
With scintillating shades of The Great Gatsby, this intoxicating thriller is a superb study in menace * Heat *
Durrant’s talent for conjuring the harsh beauty of Greece’s Mani Peninsula immediately immerses the reader … explosive * Daily Mail *
This slow-burn thriller gives White Lotus vibes thanks to the luxe setting on Greece’s Mani Peninsula * Good Housekeeping *
Durrant pairs taut psychological suspense with crisp, beautiful writing * i Paper *
Explosive * Woman & Home *
Durrant’s cast of characters are intensely unlikeable and yet utterly irresistible * Red *
I loved this book. The descriptions are so beautiful that you almost don’t notice the brilliance of the plotting * Elly Griffiths *

Dead Heat is Sabine Durrant’s seventh work of dark psychological suspense. Its setting, part of the Greek Peloponnese, has obsessed her since she read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s travel book The Mani in her twenties. Her previous thrillers include Lie with Me, which was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and Sun Damage, which was subject to a fierce film and TV bidding war and is currently in production with Bad Wolf and Disney.

Before becoming a full-time novelist, Sabine Durrant worked in editorial at The Independent, The Sunday Times and The Guardian, where she also wrote the weekly ‘Sabine Durrant’ interview with subjects as diverse as Archbishop Runcie, Stella McCartney, and Jeff Goldblum. She has written two works of general fiction, including the bestselling Having it and Eating it, and two Connie Pickles novels for young adults. Her essay ‘At Sea’, for the collection Truth or Dare, was a personal investigation into the life and death of her father, a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, who disappeared off the Dorset coast a few months after she was born.

Sabine Durrant lives in south London with her husband, three adult children, one dog, and two cats.

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