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* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''. Atticus Finch defends an innocent black man on a brutally hot day, accused of rape on a brutally hot day.
* The first (and crucial) part of the novel ''[[Atonement]]'' takes place during a record heat wave, and characters comment at least once on how all this heat will make young people behave recklessly. They do.
* ''Red Wind'': This [[Raymond Chandler]] novella takes place during the [
* Several books into ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', the Dark One's influence on the world extends to causing a heat wave that covers the entire known world. This leads to a lengthy arc in the 6-8th books in which the characters must put the weather back into order.
* The [[Ray Bradbury]] short story "Touched With Fire" (in the anthology ''The October Country'') has its main characters theorizing about heat and its effects on people: one character asserts that the most murderous temperature is 98 degrees Fahrenheit (cooler than that you can cope with; hotter than that and you don't want to expend energy in violent behavior).
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