The #1 Irish Times bestseller's first book set in her native Ireland
'With every breath in my body, I'm BEGGING you to read Jane Casey's books!' Marian Keyes
'One of the very best authors writing today' Andrea Mara
The perfect place
When Ruth arrives at a cliff-top cottage on the Irish coast overlooking the Atlantic, the last thing on her mind is murder. She and her best friend Maura are spending a month there and she intends to make the most of it.
The perfect crime
But then Ruth wakes up alone, covered in someone else’s blood. Something terrible has happened, and Maura is gone, as if she’d never been there at all.
The perfect witness
Ruth is a suspect, but she’s also the key to finding out what happened. She’s eager to help. But is her version of events the whole story?
Or is the truth everything she didn’t say?
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. 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.