writing is realistic and as accurate as possible. This authenticity has made her novels international bestsellers and critical successes. The Maeve Kerrigan series has been nominated for many awards: in 2015 Casey 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.
Born in Dublin, Casey now lives in southwest London with her husband and two children.
Her newest novel is The Killing Kind.
[My Book, The Movie: The Killing Kind]
At The Strand Magazine Casey shared twelve novels featuring some of her favorite courtroom scenes, including:
Presumed Innocent by Scott TurowRead about another entry on the list.
If you ask a group of crime writers for their favourite thrillers Presumed Innocent is likely to turn up on the list. Rusty Sabich is used to prosecuting murders, but he finds himself on trial when his lover is found dead. There’s a particular thrill to seeing the court case unfold from the perspective of the accused – a man who knows exactly what is happening and what awaits him if he is found guilty. The plot twists are justly famous; if you start reading it be prepared to stay up all night until it’s finished.
Presumed Innocent is among Bonnie Kistler's four classic fictional trials that subverted the truth, five books that changed Reece Hirsch's life, Fiona Barton's ten favorite books centering on marriages that hold dark secrets and Alafair Burke's favorite "Lawyers are People Too" books. Sandy Stern in Presumed Innocent is one of Simon Lelic's top ten lawyers in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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