Jane Casey

Jane Casey is an Irish-born author of crime novels. She was born in Dublin in 1977 and grew up in Castleknock, 8 km (5 mi) west of the centre of Dublin. She studied English at Jesus College, Oxford. For a period she worked as an editor for a children's book publisher.

Her first book, The Missing, was published by Ebury Press in February 2010. It was shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award. She then began a series of novels featuring Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan: The Burning, The Reckoning, The Last Girl, The Stranger You Know and The Kill (which was shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award 2014).

In 2023, a television adaptation of Casey's standalone novel The Killing Kind was released by Paramount+.

Her 2024 novel A Stranger in the Family won the Crime Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.

She has also begun a series of novels for young adults, featuring her character Jess Tennant: How to Fall, Bet Your Life and Hide and Seek. She lives in London with her two sons and husband.

Publications

Standalone Novels

Jess Tennant series

Maeve Kerrigan series

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