Maeve Kerrigan · #12

The Secret Room

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

A closed door. An impossible murder.

2:32 p.m. Wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury London hotel and orders a bottle of champagne. Within the hour, her lover discovers her submerged in a bath of scalding water, dead.

At first glance it looks like an accident. No one went in with her. No one came out. But all the signs point to murder.

For DS Maeve Kerrigan, the case is a welcome distraction. But when shock news hits close to home, affecting her partner, DI Josh Derwent, she faces the toughest challenge of her career. And if she fails her world will never be the same again…

Published
April 24, 2025
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Author

Jane Casey

Long before she began crafting the tightly wound psychological thrillers that keep readers wide-eyed and sleepless, Jane Casey was already tuned into the quiet tension of the world around her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a household steeped in literature—her mother a teacher, her father a professor—storytelling was less a hobby than a birthright. But it wasn’t until she moved to Oxford to study English, and later London to edit crime fiction, that she began to shape her own voice—one steeped in moral ambiguity, slow-burning tension, and the shadows we carry inside ourselves. Casey didn’t come to crime fiction to glorify violence or create…