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Dead Heat
  • Published: 12 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804958926
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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Dead Heat

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Tr. Paperback
3 Mar 2026
EBook
12 Mar 2026
Audiobook
12 Mar 2026
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12 Apr 2026
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White Lotus goes Greek in this 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

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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.
  • Published: 12 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804958926
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

Sabine Durrant

Sabine Durrant, the author of Having It and Eating It, is a British journalist best known for "The Sabine Durrant Interview" in The Guardian. She has also worked for The Observer, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times.

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Praise for Dead Heat

A real scorcher. You won't want to miss this one!

Harlan Coben

Gloriously dark and wildly engrossing, I was swept up in the sticky, claustrophobic web of twisted emotions, unnerving obsessions, murder and lies that Sabine Durrant so brilliantly and skilfully creates in Dead Heat

Lisa Jewell

Tense, clever and so vividly written, I could really feel the deceit and betrayal sizzling under the hot Greek sun. I raced through it in one sitting

Ruth Mancini

An unputdownable, unguessable, sun-drenched thriller. No one captures the deadly foibles of the middle classes better than Sabine Durrant

Erin Kelly

No one writes sun-soaked seductive and obsession like Sabine Durrant. Better than every season of The White Lotus spun into one, and drenched with danger, sex, and revenge. Sensational summer reading

Sarah Hilary

Dead Heat is a sharply observed, sophisticated page-turner. Sun-drenched and dripping with suspense, this is the perfect summer read

Lucy Clarke

More hooks than a Greek fishing boat, a deliciously dark, modern Greek Gatsby, with a minotaur of a monster at its heart. Absolutely, page-turningly perfect. I burned my way through it

Julia Crouch

Drenched in atmosphere and menace, with complicated characters who change complexion with the light, subtle dynamics playing out just under the surface, and a Greek setting to die for. Literally

Tammy Cohen

Compelling, evocative and fiendishly smart, this unsettling literary thriller is a five-star triumph.

Isabelle Broom

I was gripped from the off by this twisting, beautifully written tale of love and friendship fracturing under the glare of the Greek sun and as the mood darkened and tensions rose I found I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I loved it!

Marika Cobbold

No one writes suspense like Sabine Durrant. Dead Heat is perfection

Clare Mackintosh

Beautiful and evocative, this thriller hooked me with its dark and twisty take on love and obsession

Heidi Perks

I loved this book. The descriptions are so beautiful that you almost don’t notice the brilliance of the plotting

Elly Griffiths