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Dead Heat: The criminally good gangland thriller and instant Sunday Times bestseller (Feb 2024)
Jessie Keane
Crime & mystery, Organized crime
Once, he loved her. Now he's going to put her away for murder.
Passion or duty? It's going to be a dead heat...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 centre 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 Doyles' 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...
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Praise for Dead Heat: The criminally good gangland thriller and instant Sunday Times bestseller (Feb 2024)
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This thrilling and twisty crime novel is perfect for fans of Martina Cole - My Weekly
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Mills & Boon meets Peaky Blinders in a mix of heaving bosoms and cut-throat razors - The Sun
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Authentically gritty! - Crime Monthly
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No one delves into the underworld like Keane! - Woman's Weekly
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A brilliant historical crime read - Bella
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A gritty and enlightening read - Yours
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An epic drama starring an unforgettable heroine. Keane...has a wicked eye for the ruthless, fiercely factional criminal underworld and her books never fail to pack a powerful punch... Every story that Keane writes transports her readers into the heart of a terrifying but addictive underworld, and into the lives of people of every shade... And this cracking page-turner is certainly packed with Keane's trademark cast of larger-than-life characters - each superbly fleshed out and each inhabiting a world so palpably real that we can feel the menace... Brimming with drama, suspense, cruelty and the kind of gobsmacking violence that has made Keane one of the most powerful writers in contemporary crime fiction, this is full-on, eye-watering (of every kind!) entertainment from start to finish! - Lancashire Evening Post
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Another charged gangland thriller from the bestselling author - Woman's Weekly
Jessie Keane
Dubbed 'Queen of the Underworld', Jessie Keane is of Romany gypsy stock. She was born rich, in the back of her gran's barrel top wagon, and her family thrived until their firm crashed into bankruptcy and became poor. Her father died when she was a teenager and she fled to London to escape grim reality, finding there a lifelong fascination with the criminal underworld and the teeming life of the city.
Twice divorced and living in a freezing council flat, she decided to pursue her childhood aim to become a writer. She sold her wedding dress to buy a typewriter and penned her first Annie Carter book, Dirty Game.
This was followed by five more Annie Carter books, all Sunday Times bestsellers, then Ruby Darke arrived in Nameless, Lawless and The Edge. Jessie's stand-alone novels include Jail Bird, The Make, Dangerous, Fearless, The Knock and The Manor.
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