Dead Heat: The criminally good gangland thriller from the Queen of the Underworld

Jessie Keane's new thriller is a gripping gangland story about a woman who is accused of murdering her husband's mistress. Christie Doyle is living the dream until her husband confesses to an affair and asks for a divorce, and the other woman is found dead.

Format: Hardback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

The gripping new gangland thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller and Queen of the Underworld, Jessie Keane. Once, he loved her. Now, he's going to put her away for murder. Christie Doyle is living the dream: she has a beautiful mansion on the South Downs with an infinity pool and stables, and her husband, Kenny, spoils her rotten. It's her birthday, and she is the center of the most amazing party. And then the bombshell drops. Kenny confesses to an affair and asks for a divorce. Worse is to come when the other woman—Lara, nineteen years old and pregnant with Kenny's child—is found dead. Suspicion falls on Christie, and the Doyle's life is ripped apart as the police hunt for evidence: lead investigator DCI Dexter Cooper is a face from Christie's own troubled past, and he knows better than anyone what she is capable of. The race to unmask a killer is on, and Christie will have to use all her wits and skills to stay one step ahead of the game. But as the stakes get higher and the danger grows, Christie realizes that she may have to pay a price that she cannot afford. She has to decide whether to risk everything to save her husband, or to let him go and face the consequences of his actions alone.

Weight: 708g
Dimension: 163 x 242 x 43 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399720946