The Secret Room by Jane Casey

The Secret Room by Jane Casey

*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 character and a case that will break your heart' Jo Callaghan

‘This book hit the ground running and didn’t let up’ Sam Holland

'Her best yet, gripping and twisty but also moving and with a slow-burn sizzle that would put romance writers to shame' Claire McGowan

The Secret Room was a #1 Irish bestseller on Sunday 4th May 2025

READERS LOVE THE SECRET ROOM…

‘Flawless writing, flawless plotting and flawless characterisation. I’m utterly addicted to this series!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Definitely 5*’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘You will not be disappointed!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘So compelling and tense right to the end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘This is what Maeve and Josh fans have been waiting for’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘I need more already from this addictive series’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘This book was really unputdownable!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘It’s 1am and I should have been asleep hours ago, but I couldn’t put the book down’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Hard to review without spoilers!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Expect nail biting and very late nights… It stays tense to the very, very end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘I have not read any in this series before but I am hooked!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘OMG!!!!!!!! The way Jane Casey is able to surprise me book after book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Early praise for The Secret Room

‘OhMy. God.’ Ruth Ware

‘Jane Casey just gets better and better’ Erin Kelly

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

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

‘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

'The Secret Room has it all – heroes and villains, an intriguing mystery with a brilliant solve, and an emotional roller coaster with Maeve and Josh … Gripped from beginning to end' Sam Holland

More praise for Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series

'With every breath in my body, I'm BEGGING you to read Jane Casey's books! A Stranger in the Family is her latest and the plot! The characterisation! The sexual chemistry that continues to burn between Maeve Kerrigan and Derwent! Delivers on every level! I LOVED it!' 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

'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

‘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

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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780008702250
ISBN 10	000870225X
Title	The Secret Room
Author	Jane Casey
Series	Maeve Kerrigan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2025-04-24
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.