The Last Girl
Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top echelons of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn't provide a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin daughters…and it does nothing to protect his family when someone brutally murders his wife and daughter in their own home.
When Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, the two survivors—Philip and his second favorite daughter, Lydia—both claim to have seen nothing, but it's clear right away that this is an unhappy family accustomed to keeping secrets. Maeve soon finds herself entangled in a case with a thousand leads that all seem to point nowhere, and it doesn't help that her boss, whom she trusts more than almost anyone, is starting to make decisions that Maeve finds questionable at best.
In The Last Girl, Jane Casey once again demonstrates her ability to write vivid, three-dimensional characters and spin a gripping, unpredictable mystery.
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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.
Maeve Kerrigan
In a city that never truly sleeps—where justice is messy and violence whispers from behind closed doors—the Maeve Kerrigan series carves out its own dark corner of the crime fiction world. With an unflinching eye for detail and a deep psychological undercurrent, these novels follow a young detective who must navigate not only the brutal crimes of London’s underbelly, but the quieter, more insidious dangers that come from within the very system meant to uphold the law.
Maeve Kerrigan consists of twelve primary books, and includes four additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
