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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16 Jun 2022
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20 Aug 2023
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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.

'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?
  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781804942680
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

Jane Casey

“All my criminal elements have some basis in reality, no matter how awful they may be. Nothing is completely farfetched.” Jane Casey

Crime is a family affair for Jane Casey. Married to a criminal barrister, she has a unique insight into the brutal underbelly of urban life, from the smell of a police cell to the darkest motives of a serial killer.

This gritty realism has made her books international bestsellers and critical successes; while D.C. Maeve Kerrigan has quickly become one of the most popular characters in crime fiction.

Her novel The Stranger You Know won the Mary Higgins Clark Award and she has also been shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award four times as well as the CWA Dagger in the Library Award.

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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
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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
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