Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%
Fiction
by Joy Lawn
May 2012, no. 341

Dead Heat by Bronwyn Parry

Hachette Australia, $32.99 pb, 352 pp, 9780733625497

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

Proudly popular fiction, Dead Heat is a romantic thriller set in a north-western New South Wales National Park. Organised crime in fiction generally operates in a large city or on the coastline, but author Bronwyn Parry sets her plot in the bush. The inclusion of bushland and animals creates unique plot obstacles and possibilities for both the criminals and the authorities, and it is affirming to read of places often overlooked in fiction: Gloucester and Barrington Tops, Coffs Harbour, Tamworth, Inverell, and Newcastle.

 


Continue reading for only $10 per month.
Subscribe and gain full access to Australian Book Review.

Already a subscriber? .
If you need assistance, feel free to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..



Dead Heat by Bronwyn Parry

Hachette Australia, $32.99 pb, 352 pp, 9780733625497

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


From the New Issue

Letters – October 2025

by Eli McLean, Theodore Ell, Ben Brooker, et al.

Fierceland: A haunted second novel by Omar Musa

by Shannon Burns

Prove It: Ready reckoner for post-truth age by Elizabeth Finkel

by Abi Stephenson

A Life in Letters: A new light on Simone Weil by Robert Chevanier and André A. Devaux, translated from French by Nicholas Elliott

by Scott Stephens

You May Also Like

Julius Caesar

by Tim Byrne
by Robert Reynolds

The Grass Library by David Brooks

by Ben Brooker
by Jane Sullivan

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.

Submit comment