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 &
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.
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