The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author

Every mother's worst nightmare . . .

When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.

Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side. It looks like a straightforward murder-suicide but DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent soon discover nothing about this case is straightforward.

The Marshalls have been keeping secrets. And someone is prepared to kill to hide the truth. Until Maeve finds out what happened to Rosalie, no one will be safe . . .

You won't want to miss the book that everyone is talking about in 2024!

'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, author of Girl A

'Sparks are flying in this top class detective story. Jane Casey is simply one of the best writers of detective fiction today' Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

'A twisting, seductive, sensational thriller. Tense, heartfelt and hugely gripping, A Stranger in the Family is Jane Casey at her phenomenal best' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

'Nobody plots better than Jane Casey...the twist in the end was as surprising as it was satisfying' Stig Abell, author of Death Under a Little Sky

'2024 has barely started and this is already one of my books of the year' Jo Spain, author of The Trial

'As tense as piano wire, intricately plotted, endlessly intriguing and all underpinned by a simmering "will they, won't they" narrative' Neil Lancaster, author of the D.S. Max Craigie series

'The undisputed queen of simmering tension. Explosively good' Sarah Hilary, author of the D.I. Marnie Rome series

'A wonderfully clever plot, surprises at every turn...one of the very best authors writing today' Andrea Mara, author of All Her Fault

'A Stranger in the Family has a fantastic emotional arc to it, and it's not just Maeve and Josh's high-wire act either. Brilliant' William Shaw, author of the Alexandra Cupidi mysteries

'Stellar stuff: funny, sexy, and a character and a case that will break your heart' Jo Callaghan, author of In the Blink of an Eye

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

'This book hit the ground running and didn't let up' Sam Holland, author of The Echo Man

'The slow burn between Maeve and Josh over the entire series fills me with the sort of heady, burbling glee that I've only previously felt from my favourite romance novels' Bookbrunch