Deadly Heat is the fifth novel in Richard Castle's series about NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and journalist Jameson Rook.

[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.

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.

On February 5, 2013 ABC announced that the fifth novel will be released on September 17, 2013 in hardcover.