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The Burning

Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. A former editor, she has written twelve crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. Her books have been international bestsellers, critically acclaimed for their realism and accuracy. 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. In 2019, Cruel Acts was chosen as Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was a Sunday Times bestseller. The Killing Kind was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2021 and has been adapted for television by Eleventh Hour and Paramount+, releasing September 2023 and broadcast on ITV in the UK and Hulu in America. The Close has been shortlisted for the E-Dunnit award at the 2024 CrimeFest Awards. Her most recent novel, A Stranger in the Family, spent 6 weeks on the Irish Times bestseller list and was named one of The Times 10 Best Crime &amp; Thrillers of 2024. It won Crime Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the overall Book of the Year Award at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. 
 
Jane lives in southwest London with her husband, who is a criminal barrister, and their two children.

'Jane Casey's police procedurals go from strength to strength!' Sunday Times 
'If you have not read Jane Casey, start immediately' Marian Keyes 
'The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction. . .' Erin Kelly 
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A serial killer who wants to watch you burn. 
 
The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death, before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. And now the fifth victim has been found. 
 
Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving friends and family, the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. 
 
But how do you catch a killer no one has ever seen? And when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke. . .?

The Missing

Jane Casey's police procedurals go from strength to strength!

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Jenny Shephard is twelve years old and missing. 
 
Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that the chances of finding her alive are diminishing every day. 
 
As a little girl Sarah's older brother went out to play and never come home. The strain of not knowing what happened to him tore her family apart. 
 
When Sarah finds Jenny's body, beaten and abandoned in the woods near her home, she is drawn into the heart of the investigation and a media storm. 
 
Her presence at the scene arouses suspicions. But it is not just the police that are watching her...

The Reckoning

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It's a thin line between revenege and murder. . . 
 
To the public, he's a hero: a killer who targets convicted paedophiles. 
 
Two men have already been tortured to death and, for the police, their cases are not a priority. 
 
But DC Maeve Kerrigan believes that no one should be allowed to take the law into their own hands. 
 
As the killer's violence begins to escalate, Maeve is forced to confront exactly how far she's prepared to go to ensure justice is served...

The Stranger You Know

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He meets women. 
He gains their trust. 
He kills them. 
 
That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been targeted in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in. 
 
But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve's colleague. 
 
Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how well does she really know him? 
Because this isn't the first time Derwent's been accused of murder...

The Kill

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Their job is to fight crime. Now they are the victims. . . 
 
A killer is terrorising London and this time the police are the targets. 
 
Urgently re-assigned to investigate a series of attacks on fellow officers, Maeve Kerrigan and her boss Josh Derwent have little idea what motivates the killer's fury against the force. 
 
And they know it will only be a matter of time before the killer strikes again.

The Last Girl

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A woman and her teenage daughter are found murdered in their South London home. The girl's throat has been cut. Her mother stabbed to death. 
 
When DC Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, her first thought is that this is a domestic dispute gone bad. 
But the husband - found bloody and unconscious in an upstairs room - insists he's the third victim not the killer. 
 
With Maeve's only witness refusing to talk, how will she unravel the truth?

Hide and Seek

A brand-new edge-of-your seat thriller from bestselling author, Jane Casey. Picture perfect places can often hide the darkest of secrets . . .

Using part romance, part mystery, part family drama, Casey manages to develop multiple plots simultaneously in the Jess Tennant series. Jess is a character who is stubborn, tough, and headstrong but also has a soft side for those in need; she is, in fact, compelled to eliminate injustice. Jess’s distrust of authority is what drives her determination, and as it turns out, she is not wrong about the corrupt adults creating friction in her life

'If I hadn't walked into the room at that moment, maybe everything would have worked out differently. Maybe everything would have been all right after all . . .' 
 
Port Sentinel may be a beautiful seaside tourist trap, but in the short time Jess Tennant has lived there, it has seen its fair share of tragedy. Tragedy that somehow Jess keeps getting caught up in. 
 
A schoolgirl from the town goes missing, leaving her diary behind and a lot of unanswered questions. Has she run away from her unhappy home or is there something much more sinister going on? And can Jess find her before it's too late?

#ChooseThePlot

A choose your own adventure from the top names in crime fiction!

Christopher Fowler (Author) Christopher Fowler was the multiple award-winning author of almost fifty novels and short story collections, including the celebrated Bryant &amp; May mysteries. His other novels include Roofworld, Spanky, The Sand Men and Hot Water. He has also written two acclaimed memoirs, Paperboy (winner of the Green Carnation Prize) and Film Freak, plus The Book of Forgotten Authors and Peculiar London, Bryant and May's singular and eccentric guide to the city. In 2015 Chris was awarded the Crime Writers Association's coveted 'Dagger in the Library' for his body of work. He lived in London and Barcelona. Diagnosed with cancer just as the UK went into lockdown in 2020, Chris died on 2nd March 2023. Jane Casey (Author) Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. A former editor, she has written twelve crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. Her books have been international bestsellers, critically acclaimed for their realism and accuracy. 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. In 2019, Cruel Acts was chosen as Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was a Sunday Times bestseller. The Killing Kind was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2021 and has been adapted for television by Eleventh Hour and Paramount+, releasing September 2023 and broadcast on ITV in the UK and Hulu in America. The Close has been shortlisted for the E-Dunnit award at the 2024 CrimeFest Awards. Her most recent novel, A Stranger in the Family, spent 6 weeks on the Irish Times bestseller list and was named one of The Times 10 Best Crime &amp; Thrillers of 2024. It won Crime Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the overall Book of the Year Award at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. 
 
Jane lives in southwest London with her husband, who is a criminal barrister, and their two children.

There is a murder. 
There is a victim. 
But are you ready to be complicit in the crime? 
 
Three top crime authors teamed up to tell a story, but one vital contributor was missing: you. Christopher Fowler, James Oswald and Jane Casey had the challenge of unraveling a tale of murder and vengeance, but they weren’t making all the decisions. Vital story elements and plot developments were decided by those reading the story and following the action. When they came to the cliffhangers would they make the right choice? 
 
#ChooseThePlot 
 
Ian, a three-time loser, is suddenly offered a chance to leave all his troubles behind. But is the deal too good to be true? One character won’t make it out of the first chapter alive. Who did the readers decide would live… and who would die? And how will their choices alter the destiny of the story? 
If lives were in your hands, would you make the right choice?

Bet Your Life

The second unputdownable crime thriller starring teen sleuth Jess Tennant, from bestselling author Jane Casey.

Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why? 
As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would do whatever it took to abuse them, from lying and blackmail to spiking drinks. Could a group of vengeful victims be behind his attack? Or is there someone else with a grudge against Seb and who will stop at nothing to silence him?

Left For Dead: A Maeve Kerrigan Story

A digital crime thriller novella featuring Detective Maeve Kerrigan

THE STRANGER YOU KNOW is a beautifully mature outing from Jane Casey, which builds nicely on the characters and relationships of the investigating team from earlier books, exploring their complexities, and introducing a few new ones. All this, on top of a well-plotted crime investigation makes for a highly absorbing read that I thoroughly recommend.

‘Two women died every week in the UK at the hands of a partner or ex-partner. On average, women endured thirty-five incidents of domestic abuse before contacting the police. 
 
And then I showed up the thirty-sixth time and stumbled through my arguments for why the victim should trust us. As if we could save them. 
 
It had been two months, and so far I remembered all of their faces. So far, none of them had turned up on the daily briefing as the borough’s latest homicide. ’ 
 
A violent rapist is attacking women, leaving them for dead on south London streets. Then young police woman Maeve Kerrigan responds to a domestic disturbance and stumbles across the latest victim. But as a new recruit – and a female to boot – she must battle sexism from her colleagues in her bid to be taken seriously enough to even assist on the case... 
 
Jane Casey’s bestselling D.C. Kerrigan books have earned her many fans. This exclusive digital short story takes Maeve back to her early days as a rookie police woman.

How to Fall

The first unputdownable YA crime thriller from bestselling author Jane Casey.

When fifteen-year-old Freya drowns, everyone assumes she's killed herself, but no-one knows why. Her cousin, Jess Tennant, thinks she was murdered - and is determined to uncover the truth. On a summer visit to sleepy Port Sentinel, Jess (who bears a striking resemblance to her dead cousin) starts asking questions - questions that provoke strong reactions from her friends and family, not to mention Freya's enemies. 
 
Everyone is hiding something - and Freya herself had more than her fair share of secrets. Can Jess unravel the mystery of her cousin's death? A mystery involving a silver locket, seething jealousy and a cliff-top in the pitch black of night?

Jane Casey

'Jane Casey's police procedurals go from strength to strength!' Sunday Times 
'If you have not read Jane Casey, start immediately' Marian Keyes 
'The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction. . .' Erin Kelly 
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Arson, accident or murder? 
 
After a fire rips through a North London tower block, two bodies are found locked in an eleventh-floor flat. But it is the third victim - the MP Geoff Armstrong - that requires the presence of detective Maeve Kerrigan and the murder squad. 
 
It appears that Armstrong, trapped by the fire, chose to jump to his death rather than wait for rescue. But why? And what was the controversial right-wing politician doing there in the first place? 
 
As Maeve picks through the wreckage, she will uncover a secret world where everyone has something to hide . . .

After the Fire

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