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 . Casey is a cousin of broadcaster Pat Kenny . She lives in London with her two sons and husband.