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The Last Girl
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  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781804942680
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

The Last Girl

The gripping detective crime thriller from the bestselling author

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Paperback
20 Aug 2023
EBook
16 June 2022
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The third book in Jane Casey's gripping Maeve Kerrigan series. A tense crime thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Claire Douglas, Lisa Jewell and Clare Mackintosh.

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE GRIPPING MAEVE KERRIGAN SERIES

'Jane Casey's police procedurals go from strength to strength!' Sunday Times
'If you have not read Jane Casey, start immediately' Marian Keyes
'The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction. . .' Erin Kelly
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A woman and her teenage daughter are found murdered in their South London home. The girl's throat has been cut. Her mother stabbed to death.

When DC Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, her first thought is that this is a domestic dispute gone bad.
But the husband - found bloody and unconscious in an upstairs room - insists he's the third victim not the killer.

With Maeve's only witness refusing to talk, how will she unravel the truth?
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PRAISE FOR JANE CASEY

‘A brilliant example of nothing being as it seems’ Harriet Tyce
‘Pacy plotting’ Sunday Times Crime Club
‘Jane Casey is among our very best crime novelists’ Liz Nugent
‘Chilling and inventive’ Woman’s Weekly
‘A deliciously bingeable read’ Ruth Ware
‘Simply stunning’ Heat
‘A chilling read’ Woman
  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781804942680
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

About the author

Jane Casey

Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. A former editor, she has written twelve crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. Her books have been international bestsellers, critically acclaimed for their realism and accuracy. 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. In 2019, Cruel Acts was chosen as Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was a Sunday Times bestseller. The Killing Kind was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2021 and has been adapted for television by Eleventh Hour and Paramount+, releasing September 2023 and broadcast on ITV in the UK and Hulu in America. The Close has been shortlisted for the E-Dunnit award at the 2024 CrimeFest Awards. Her most recent novel, A Stranger in the Family, spent 6 weeks on the Irish Times bestseller list and was named one of The Times 10 Best Crime & Thrillers of 2024. It won Crime Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the overall Book of the Year Award at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. Jane lives in southwest London with her husband, who is a criminal barrister, and their two children.
portrait photo of Jane Casey

Also by Jane Casey

Hide and Seek
After the Fire
The Kill
Bet Your Life
Left For Dead: A Maeve Kerrigan Story
The Stranger You Know
How to Fall
See all

Praise for The Last Girl

Ireland's growing cadre of first rate thriller writers is already a thing to marvel at, and Jane Casey is emerging as one of its most accomplished members.

Irish Central

Thoroughly recommended!

eurocrime.co.uk

Reminiscent of Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison . . . there is something quietly and enjoyably subversive about the character of Maeve Kerrigan. She is no superwoman, she lacks supernatural acuity, and she doesn't even have so much as a single dragon tattoo. What she has is persistence, integrity and emotional intelligence, and a very deft way of insinuating herself into a reader's affections. The Last Girl won't be the last you'll be hearing of her.

Irish Independent

The Last Girl has a searing opening . . . Casey handles several plot lines with ease, and she’s come up with an attractive series character in DC Maeve Kerrigan.

Sunday Times

This is a lively, gritty thriller. Every scene is well timed. The characters are quickly, expertly drawn. You will turn the pages fast, looking for every clue. I hadn’t read Jane Casey before but I will read her again.

William Leith, Evening Standard

A truly modern detective tale

Stylist Magazine