Secret Room (Maeve Kerrigan, Book 12)

*The #1 Irish bestseller* 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... Review: 'A tour de force - an old-fashioned locked room mystery wrapped in a deeply moving love story' Mail Online 'A rollercoaster of a ride, a police procedural par excellence all the way to the very last page' Irish Independent 'A magnificent series and its myriad fans will not complain that, for the first time, the personal stuff almost eclipses the professional proceedings ... Newcomers won't regret it' The Times 'A magnificently serpentine mystery' Daily Mail 'Readers of the previous Kerrigan book will recall that it concluded with a surprising twist, which takes centre stage in this rich addition to the series ... Casey's characteristically light touch deftly keeps these elements aloft, the multiple domestic suspense plots and various police procedural elements enriching each other, as they do across all of her writing' Irish Times 'Sublime...the series has my whole heart. Combines a fiendishly clever murder mystery with a sizzling will they/won't they? tension' Red 'this gripping novel simmers with tension throughout' Platinum 'Addictive' Crime Monthly Author Biography: Jane Casey has written sixteen crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. A former editor, she is married to a criminal barrister so her writing is realistic and authentic. This has made her novels international bestsellers and critical successes. The Maeve Kerrigan series has been nominated for many awards: in 2015 Jane won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Stranger You Know and Irish Crime Novel of the Year for After the Fire. She also won Irish Crime Novel of the Year in 2019 for Cruel Acts, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, and in 2024 for A Stranger in the Family. Jane's standalone thriller The Killing Kind has been adapted for television. Born in Dublin, Jane now lives in southwest London with her husband and two children.