Jane Casey
{{short description|Irish crime novelist}}
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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.{{Cite web |last=Gartland |first=Fiona |date=16 March 2024 |title=Irish crime author Jane Casey: 'I spent quite a long time not writing because I was looking in the wrong direction' |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/03/09/irish-crime-author-jane-casey-i-spent-quite-a-long-time-not-writing-because-i-was-looking-in-the-wrong-direction/ |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}} For a period she worked as an editor for a children's book publisher.{{Cite web |last=Leonard |first=Sue |date=2023-03-24 |title=Book interview: Jane Casey gets Close to DM Maeve Kerrigan for her 10th outing |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41101009.html |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Irish Examiner |language=en}}
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:{{Cite web |title=Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan |url=http://www.maevekerrigan.co.uk/ |access-date=17 December 2014 |website=MaeveKerrigan.co.uk}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Wrona |first=Adrianna |date=2024-11-28 |title=Interview with Jane Casey author of the book A Stranger in the Family |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/book-news/interview-with-jane-casey-author-of-the-book-a-stranger-in-the-family/a578602493.html |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}
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.
Personal life
Casey is a cousin of broadcaster Pat Kenny.{{Cite web |date=9 December 2024 |title=The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy Pat Kenny |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foOv83cKFzI |publisher=Noel Kelly |via=YouTube}} She lives in London with her two sons and husband.
Publications
= Standalone Novels =
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Missing |date=February 2010 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091935993 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Killing Kind |date=May 2021 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0008404925 |ref=none}}
= Jess Tennant series =
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=How To Fall |date=January 2013 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0552566032 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Bet Your Life |date=February 2014 |publisher=Corgi Childrens |isbn=978-0552566049 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Hide and Seek |date=August 2015 |publisher=Griffin St. Martin's |isbn=9781250040671 |ref=none}}
= Maeve Kerrigan series =
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Burning |date=November 2010 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091936006 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Reckoning |date=July 2011 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091941208 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Last Girl |date=May 2012 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091941215 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Left For Dead |date=July 2013 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=9781448177974 |ref=none}} short story
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Stranger You Know |date=July 2013 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091948368 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Kill |date=June 2014 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091949686 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=After the Fire |date=June 2015 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0091949693 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Let The Dead Speak |date=March 2017 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0008148980 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=One in Custody |date=February 2019 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008275037 |ref=none}} short story
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Cruel Acts |date=April 2019 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008149031 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Love Lies Bleeding |date=June 2019 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008149147 |ref=none}} short story
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Cutting Place |date=April 2020 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008149086 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=Silent Kill |date=August 2020 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008149154 |ref=none}} short story
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=The Close |date=March 2023 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008404970 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Jane |title=A Stranger in the Family |date=March 2024 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9780008405021 |ref=none}}
References
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External links
- {{Cite web |last=O'Loughlin |first=Vanessa |date=11 November 2011 |title=Interview: Jane Casey – The Reckoning |url=http://www.writing.ie/interviews/jane-casey-the-reckoning/ |access-date=17 December 2014 |website=Writing.ie |ref=none}}
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Category:Writers from Dublin (city)
Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford