From award-winning author Jane Casey comes an exciting short detective story following Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent.

Everyone is capable of murder…

‘I’ve killed my husband.’

Those are the words Sheila Gleeson greets the police with when they arrive on her doorstep. There is a murder weapon, fingerprints, a confession. It’s clearly premeditated murder, end of the story.

Or is it?

Because when detectives Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent dig a little deeper, they realise things might not be quite what they seem. And soon, they’re forced to question whether the woman in their custody really is as guilty as she seems, or if the killer is still on the loose…

To avoid disappointment, please note this story has previously been published in the back of the Tesco edition of Let the Dead Speak.

Published
September 7, 2018
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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…