Author interview: Jane Casey on the Cork crime writing scene, stand-alone books, and her heroine Maeve Kerrigan

London-based Irish novelist Casey has released the latest book in the Maeve Kerrigan detective series but modestly tells Marjorie Brennan that she has none of her main character’s skills in sleuthing

Jane Casey’s standalone novel ‘The Killing Kind’ was adapted for television, while her latest in the Maeve Kerrigan series is ‘The Secret Room’.

Writer Jane Casey is a details person. Her addictive series of police procedurals, featuring Maeve Kerrigan, a London-Irish police detective, has attracted an admiring legion of fans, and her hit novel The Killing Kind, about a young female barrister being stalked, was adapted by Paramount Plus.

On the page, Casey knows her way around a crime scene, interview room, or courtroom, but in real life she is clueless.