Jane Casey
Jane Casey (* 1977 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer of detective novels .
Life
Casey grew up in Castleknock , 5 miles west of central Dublin. She studied English at Jesus College , Oxford .
Her first book, The Missing (dt. The missing ) was published in February 2010 by Ebury Press. It was shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award.
She then began a series of novels with Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan, the first five volumes have also been published in German. Left For Dead (Ger. Not yet published), which appeared as the fifth book in this series, is a novella and therefore to be classified before the first book The Burning (Ger. The Arsonist ).
Casey also wrote a number of novels for young adults: Fall into the Abyss and Summer on the Edge ; the third book in this series, Hide and Seek , has so far (as of February 2020) been published exclusively in English.
Works
- The missing . Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3442375219 (Original title: The Missing . Ebury Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0091935993 , translated by Franka Reinhart)
Jess Tennant series
- Summer at the top . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3423716291 (Original title: How To Fall . Ebury Press, London 2013, ISBN 978-0552566032 , translated by Friederike Zeininger)
- Fall into the abyss . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3423716291 (Original title: Bet Your Life . Corgi Childrens, 2014, ISBN 978-0552566049 , translated by Friederike Zeininger)
- Hide and Seek . Griffin St. Martin's, 2015, ISBN 9781250040671
Maeve Kerrigan series
- The arsonist . Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3442375202 (Original title: The Burning . Ebury Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0091936006 , translated by Franka Reinhart)
- The ungracious . Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3442380107 (Original title: The Reckoning . Ebury Press, London 2011, ISBN 978-0091941208 , translated by Franka Reinhart)
- The blenders . Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3442380114 (Original title: The Last Girl . Ebury Press, London 2012, ISBN 978-0091941215 , translated by Franka Reinhart)
- Left for Dead . Ebury Press, London 2013, ISBN 9781448177974
- The Lily Killer . Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3734100437 (Original title: The Stranger You Know . Ebury Press, London 2013, ISBN 978-0091948368 , translated by Franka Reinhart)
- The death players . Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3734100444 (Original title: The Kill . Ebury Press, London 2014, ISBN 978-0091949686 , translated by Franka Reinhart)
- After the fire . Ebury Press, London 2016, ISBN 978-0091949693
- Let the dead speak . Harper Collins, 2017, ISBN 978-0008148980
- One in custody . Harper Collins, 2019 ISBN 9780008275037
- Cruel acts . Harper Collins, 2018, ISBN 9780008149031
- Love lies bleeding . Harper Collins, 2019, ISBN 9780008149147
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SURNAME | Casey, Jane |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish crime novelist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |