*Donāt miss the newest Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent thriller ā A STRANGER IN THE FAMILY ā out now!*
Guilty?
A year ago, Leo Stone was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life in prison. Now heās been freed on a technicality, and heās protesting his innocence.
Not guilty?
DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent are determined to put Stone back behind bars where he belongs, but the more Maeve digs, the less convinced she is that he did it.
The wrong decision could be deadly...
Then another woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is there a copycat killer, or have they been wrong about Stone from the start?
What people are saying about Cruel Acts:āMagnificentā Marian Keyes
āClever, classy crime fictionā Erin Kelly
āBrilliantā Fiona Barton
āTerrificā Sarah Hilary
āI adored this bookā Liz Nugent
āAuthenticā Jo Spain
āCompulsiveā Patricia Gibney
āPowerfulā Helen Fields
āKept me turning the pages long into the nightā Rachel Abbott
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Jane Casey has written fifteen crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. A former editor, she is married to a criminal barrister who helps to ensure 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. She also won Irish Crime Novel of the Year in 2019 for Cruel Acts, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, and in 2024 for A Stranger in the Family. Janeās 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.