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South of Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver book coverPublished 2025
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South of Nowhere

by Jeffery Deaver · Colter Shaw, Book 5

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Published Tuesday 6 May 2025Kindle Edition · G.P. Putnam's Sons · 414 pages
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What to know about South of Nowhere

South of Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver was first published in 2025, and it sits in the Colter Shaw series.

South of Nowhere is Book 5 in the Colter Shaw series. New readers should begin with Book 1, The Never Game. The book just before this one is Hunting Time.

Fatal Intrusion is the one Jeffery Deaver book we have reviewed, at 4.5 out of 5.

About the book

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The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV (CBS's Tracker, starring Justin Hartley) as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight.

When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his sister, Dorion, a disaster response specialist, to help locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive.

But after a surprise attack along the river obstructs Colter's urgent search, the siblings are forced to consider a new Is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes, or is someone sabotaging it? Colter and Dorion must race against a ticking clock to uncover the truth and save the citizens before the village washes out completely, destroying everything and everyone in its path.

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The series in order

Colter Shaw

This is Book 5 of 6. Every book in the series has its own page.