Arson, accident or murder?

After a fire rips through a North London tower block, two bodies are found locked in an 11th floor flat. But is the third victim that ensures the presence of detective Maeve Kerrigan and the murder squad. It appears that controversial MP Geoff Armstrong, trapped by the fire, chose to jump to his death rather than wait for rescue. But what was such a right wing politician doing in the deprived, culturally diverse Maudling Estate?

As Maeve and her senior colleague, Derwent, pick through the wreckage, they uncover the secret world of the 11th floor, where everyone seems to have something to hide…

Published
June 18, 2015
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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…