Dead Heat, Jessie Keane
Dead Heat, Jessie Keane
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Dead Heat
The criminally good gangland thriller and instant Sunday Times bestseller (Feb 2024)

Author: Jessie Keane

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2024

Synopsis

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...

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on December 29, 2020

I have said on several occasions that I have never read a bad Dick Francis novel. I am not sure that I have now. I suspect that there is more Felix than Dick Francis in this one. I gave it three stars because, compared to a mythical average mystery novel, this one is at least a little better.......more

Goodreads review by Kate on October 08, 2007

I'm not a horse racing fan, but I am a fan of good writing, and Dick Francis is one of my top all-time favorite fiction writers. He's a master of the cliffhanger chapter endings that keep me turning the pages until I've finished, to the detriment of sleep and chores getting done. This book is no exc......more

Goodreads review by Baba on March 04, 2020

Pretty good mystery thriller which starts with a bang - a mass food poisoning at a Newmarket event, followed by something even more deadly! Chef Max Moreton looks to investigate the evident mystery/conspiracy. What appears to be the start of handing over the reigns (pun intended) to his son, this Di......more

Goodreads review by Rich on May 17, 2009

This was co-written with his son Felix--meaning Dad did the outline while Felix did the writing with Dad looking over his shoulder. It's an okay mystery, but the pacing and feel is just slightly off. Sometimes there are too many information dumps that slow the pace and others, everything is there, b......more

Goodreads review by Maria on September 07, 2008

Year before last I re-read all my Dick Francis books in order of publication because I was afraid he would stop writing after his wife's death. Last year he produced Under Orders, much to my gratification and pleasure, since Sid Haley is one of my favorite characters. But Dead Heat, written with his......more

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