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Jane Casey has written fifteen crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. A former editor, she is married to a criminal barrister who helps to ensure her writing is realistic and as accurate as possible.This authenticity has made her novels international bestsellers and critical successes. The Maeve Kerrigan series has been nominated for many awards: in 2015 Jane won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Stranger You Know and Irish Crime Novel of the Year for After the Fire. She also won Irish Crime Novel of the Year in 2019 for Cruel Acts, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, and in 2024 for A Stranger in the Family. Jane’s standalone thriller The Killing Kind has been adapted for television.Born in Dublin, Jane now lives in southwest London with her husband and two children.

Praise for Jane Casey:‘I was utterly gripped’ Susie Steiner, author of bestseller Missing, Presumed‘Sharp, complex and gripping to the very end’ Alex Marwood, bestselling author of The Wicked Girls and The Killer Next Door‘Fiendishly gripping’ John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker series'I love Maeve Kerrigan – what a terrific series Jane Casey has created’ Sarah Hilary, bestselling author of Someone Else’s Skin‘Fans of intelligent police procedurals and meaty crime fiction are in for a real treat’ Sinead Crowley, bestselling author of Can Anybody Help Me‘All the twists and turns of a top-rate police procedural but with the psychological depth of a top-rate psych thriller.’ Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad‘Hooked me till the last devastating twist’ Woman & Home‘Witty, wry and with a great big heart, DS Maeve Kerrigan has to be my favourite contemporary detective.’ Irish Times‘A clever pace-y read full of constant twists and turns that will keep you riveted right until the end’. Red OnlineThis, my friends, is a really fine crime novel’. Irish Independent‘One of the most reliably enthralling of current crime series’ Sunday Express‘Jane Casey’s writing is compulsive, menacing and moving’ Sophie Hannah‘Astute, complex, layered. You’ll remember this one for a long time’ Lee Child‘The number of convincing police officers in crime fiction is a tiny squad, but Maeve has the potential to be one of the few female members’ Telegraph‘Jane Casey’s police procedurals go from strength to strength’ Sunday Times‘Every scene is well timed. The characters are quickly, expertly drawn. You will turn the pages fast’ Financial Times‘A truly modern detective tale’ Stylist‘Accomplished writing and sensitive characterisation’ The Guardian‘One of the most charming protagonists in contemporary crime fiction’ Irish Times