Deadly Heat

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Deadly Heat
Deadly-heat-cover.jpg
Cover of the book
Author Richard Castle
LanguageEnglish
Series Nikki Heat
Genre Mystery,
Crime
Publisher Hyperion Books
Publication date
September 17th, 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint Hardcover and Paperback and E-book and Audiobook
Pages240 pages (paperback)
ISBN 9781401324803
Preceded by Frozen Heat  
Followed byRaging Heat 

Deadly Heat is the fifth novel in Richard Castle's series about NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and journalist Jameson Rook. It was released on September 17, 2013. [1] The novel is published by Hyperion Books in collaboration with ABC. ABC produces the TV series Castle where the main character, Richard Castle, to whom the book is credited, shadows NYPD Detective Kate Beckett.

Contents

Premise and background

On ABC's mystery television show Castle , Richard Castle is a best-selling author who is a consultant to the NYPD and is assigned to Detective Kate Beckett, who is his muse for the series. The novel is written over the period of the fifth season. On February 5, 2013 ABC announced that the fifth novel will be released on September 17, 2013 in hardcover. The novel will be 240 pages long. The serial killer in this novel will be partially based on Season 2 serial killer, Scott Dunn. As expected, the cover is similar to previous covers in the series, with a silhouette of Detective Heat. [2]

Characters

Footnotes

  1. "Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat, #5)".
  2. "Castle TV". Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2013.