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'Trapped in rugged country in scorching summer heat, pursued by ruthless gunmen who can't afford to fail, Jo and Nick will need all their skills and courage to survive.
'The national parks where Ranger Jo Lockwood works, on the edge of the NSW outback, are untamed stretches of dry forest cut through with wild rivers. She's often alone, and she likes it that way until she discovers the body of a man, brutally murdered, in a vandalised campground.
'Detective Senior Sergeant Nick Matheson knows organised crime and gang violence from the inside out. He's so good at undercover work that his colleagues aren't sure which side he's really on. His posting to Strathnairn is supposed to be a return to normal duties, but the murder victim in the campground is only the first of Jo's discoveries.
'As Jo and Nick uncover drugs and a stash of illegal weapons, the evidence points towards local young men already on the wrong side of the law. But as far as Nick s concerned, it doesn't add up. When the body count starts mounting, each brutally punished before death, he becomes convinced that one person is behind the killings, one person is manipulating the men to commit horrific crimes, forming them into his own private drug-dealing cartel.
'Jo has seen the man's face, and now she's his next target. Nick's determined to protect her, but trapped in the rugged outback he and Jo will have to act quickly if they are going to survive.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Other Formats
- Also sound recording; large print
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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This Week You're Reading
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 July 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of Dead Heat 2012 single work novel -
Outback Appeal
Kate Cuthbert
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February/March vol. 91 no. 7 2012; (p. 38) -
[Review] Dead Heat
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February/March vol. 91 no. 7 2012; (p. 29)
— Review of Dead Heat 2012 single work novel
-
[Review] Dead Heat
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February/March vol. 91 no. 7 2012; (p. 29)
— Review of Dead Heat 2012 single work novel -
This Week You're Reading
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 July 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of Dead Heat 2012 single work novel -
Outback Appeal
Kate Cuthbert
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February/March vol. 91 no. 7 2012; (p. 38)
Awards
- 2013 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2012 winner Australian Romance Readers Awards — Favourite Romantic Suspense
- Far West NSW, New South Wales,