The Secret Room

Jane Casey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:24th Apr '25

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The new latest thrilling detective crime mystery novel from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author

*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

‘The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction’ ERIN KELLY

‘Oh. My. God.’ RUTH WARE

‘I LOVE it – it is completely MAGNIFICENT’ MARIAN KEYES

'Utterly brilliant' LIZ NUGENT

‘Sublime’ ANDREA MARA

'An old-fashioned locked room mystery wrapped in a deeply moving love story' MAIL ONLINE

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…

Praise for Jane Casey

'With every breath in my body, I'm BEGGING you to read Jane Casey's books!' Marian Keyes

‘The ultimate just-one-more-chapter read. Come for the thrill of a historic disappearance case, and get obsessed by the sexiest will-they-won't-they in crime fiction’ Abigail Dean

‘Jane Casey is simply one of the best writers of detective fiction today. There aren’t enough superlatives. I’m in awe. I utterly loved it’ Liz Nugent

‘A twisting, seductive, sensational thriller. Tense, heartfelt and hugely gripping, A Stranger in the Family is Jane Casey at her phenomenal best’ Chris Whitaker

‘Nobody plots better than Jane Casey…the twist in the end was as surprising as it was satisfying’ Stig Abell

'A Stranger in the Family blew my mind. 2024 has barely started and this is already one of my books of the year’ Jo Spain

‘As tense as piano wire, intricately plotted, endlessly intriguing and all underpinned by a simmering “will they, won’t they” narrative. Just terrific’ Neil Lancaster

‘The undisputed queen of simmering tension. Explosively good’ Sarah Hilary

'A wonderfully clever plot, surprises at every turn…one of the very best authors writing today' Andrea Mara

'Stellar stuff: funny, sexy, and...

'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

‘Oh. My. God.’ Ruth Ware

‘Jane Casey just gets better and better’ Erin Kelly

‘I LOVE it – it is completely MAGNIFICENT’ Marian Keyes

'Each one of her books excels the one that went before and this is no exception. The heat is ON. I loved it. Utterly brilliant' Liz Nugent

‘A sumptuous golden age locked room mystery wrapped up in a will-they won’t-they love story. Sublime’ Andrea Mara

‘A captivating locked room mystery’ Claire McGowan

‘Jane Casey is an absolute A1, copper-bottomed GENIUS’ Lucy Mangan

'How does she do it? Expert and extraordinarily satisfying … Long term fans will delight in this latest Josh and Maeve installment while readers of crime fiction, both new and old will get lost in a classic locked room mystery' Sinead Crowley

'My favourite Maeve yet, with two electrifying mysteries and an emotional heartbeat that had mine racing for the whole read' Jo Spain

ISBN: 9780008702250

Dimensions: 240mm x 159mm x 40mm

Weight: 520g

416 pages