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''. Provided by Wikipedia