- Jane Casey

Maeve Kerrigan - The Secret Room (Maeve Kerrigan, Book 12)

By Jane Casey
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The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author

Wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury hotel in central London. Within the hour, her lover finds her submerged in a bath full of scalding water, dead. At first glance it looks like an accident, because no one went into the room with her and no one came out, but everything points to murder…

For DS Maeve Kerrigan the case is a welcome distraction from her worries about DI Josh Derwent, who is struggling with a difficult situation – but then disaster strikes. The only person who can help Josh now is Maeve. It’s no longer will-they-won’t-they – this is a matter of life and death.

Author: Jane Casey
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 24 Apr 2025
Pages: 384
ISBN: 978-0-00-870225-0
Price: £16.99, £16.99 (Export Price) , €None
Jane Casey has written fifteen crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. A former editor, she is married to a criminal barrister who ensures her writing is realistic and as accurate as possible.This authenticity has made her novels international bestsellers and critical successes. 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. Jane’s standalone thriller The Killing Kind has been adapted for television.Born in Dublin, Jane now lives in southwest London with her husband and two children.

Praise for Jane Casey -

'With every breath in my body, I'm BEGGING you to read Jane Casey's books! A Stranger in the Family is her latest and the plot! The characterisation! The sexual chemistry that continues to burn between Maeve Kerrigan and Derwent! Delivers on every level! I LOVED it!' Marian Keyes -

”'The ultimate just-one-more-chapter read. Come for the thrill of a historic disappearance case, and get obsessed by the sexiest will-they-won't-they in crime fiction” - Abigail Dean

”'Jane Casey is simply one of the best writers of detective fiction today. There aren’t enough superlatives. I’m in awe. I utterly loved it” - Liz Nugent

”'A twisting, seductive, sensational thriller. Tense, heartfelt and hugely gripping, A Stranger in the Family is Jane Casey at her phenomenal best” - Chris Whitaker

”'Nobody plots better than Jane Casey…the twist in the end was as surprising as it was satisfying” - Stig Abell

”'A Stranger in the Family blew my mind. 2024 has barely started and this is already one of my books of the year” - Jo Spain

”'As tense as piano wire, intricately plotted, endlessly intriguing and all underpinned by a simmering 'will they, won’t they' narrative. Just terrific” - Neil Lancaster

”'The undisputed queen of simmering tension. Explosively good” - Sarah Hilary

'A wonderfully clever plot, surprises at every turn…one of the very best authors writing today' Andrea Mara -

'Stellar stuff: funny, sexy, and a character and a case that will break your heart' Jo Callaghan -

”'This book hit the ground running and didn’t let up” - Sam Holland

'Her best yet, gripping and twisty but also moving and with a slow-burn sizzle that would put romance writers to shame' Claire McGowan -