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Casey Kelleher Books in Order

This page gathers British crime author Casey Kelleher’s books in order, with series lists, brief summaries, reading order help and tips on where to start.

Last updated: January 14, 2026

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19 books

The Perfect Guest

by Casey Kelleher

2025

Ten years after she last saw her granddaughter, a woman opens her door to find Stephanie on the step clutching a sky-blue backpack and claiming she has nowhere else to go. As grief over her daughter’s death mingles with fear about old family secrets, the grandmother starts to suspect Stephanie is hiding far more than she lets on.

Buried

by Casey Kelleher

2025

Jolie Conway’s life shatters when her boyfriend Steve Jenkins is arrested for a brutal murder, leaving her alone with newborn son Kane and a pile of questions. On East London turf controlled by brothers Wesley and Lance King, a new body turns up, drawing Jolie into their violent world and the crossfire of secrets that refuse to stay buried.

The Missing Mother

by Casey Kelleher

2024

As a baby, Jenna was left with no clue to her origins, and she has never tried to trace her birth family. When she later sees a distraught woman place a newborn in a hospital safe-haven box and walk away, Jenna becomes obsessed with finding the missing mother, only to uncover secrets and people who will do anything to stay hidden.

The Babysitter’s Secret

by Casey Kelleher

2023

After her mother’s death, a young woman returns to the house where she was born and discovers a shocking secret hidden in her final letter. Mistaken for a new live-in nanny by troubled mother Cecelia, she moves in, hoping her returning memories will reveal the truth while she protects two vulnerable children from harm.

Only Child

by Casey Kelleher

2022

Sherrie and Richard finally have the daughter they dreamed of, fifteen-year-old Kayla, and Sherrie has always lived in fear of losing her. When Kayla fails to come home after a sleepover and the police reveal she has been taken, the couple’s long-buried secret about Kayla’s past threatens to explode.

No Going Back

by Casey Kelleher

2021

When newborn Riley Cooke is snatched from the hospital, DC Lucy Murphy faces a frantic race to find him before his grandfather, feared gangster Pete Baker, hunts down the kidnappers himself. Caught between a grieving young mother and a vengeful crime boss, Lucy must stop more innocent blood being spilled.

I'll Never Tell

by Casey Kelleher

2021

As a child she and her friend Sarah spent every spare moment in an abandoned cottage they called the Doll House, until a terrible accident left someone dead and she took the blame. Two decades later, with a new identity, loving husband Carl and son Jacob, threatening notes appear saying "Found you", and her carefully rebuilt life starts to unravel.

No Fear

by Casey Kelleher

2020

As DC Lucy Murphy tries to help Debra, the terrified wife of violent drug dealer Gerard Jennings, she sees a chance to bring down a major player on the Griffin Estate. Going undercover in his gang while her beloved nan acts strangely, Lucy risks everything as Gerard grows more desperate and dangerous.

No Escape

by Casey Kelleher

2020

Years after witnessing her mother’s murder on the Griffin Estate, rookie DC Lucy Murphy is sent back there on her first posting. Tasked with protecting vulnerable siblings Shannon and Kian from brutal gang leader Jax Priestly, she must confront her past before more blood is spilled.

MINE

by Casey Kelleher

2020

Rebecca Dawson seems to have it all, a handsome wealthy husband, Jamie, and their adored baby daughter Ella. When sinister incidents convince her she is being watched and tormented over a long-buried crime, Rebecca no longer knows whether to fear her past, her husband or her own mind.

The Forgotten

by Casey Kelleher

2018

Nancy Byrne now runs the notorious Byrne crime family and is doing everything she can to give her little girl Scarlett a safer life. When Scarlett is snatched from a local park, Nancy’s enemies close in and she must decide how far she will go to get her daughter back.

The Broken

by Casey Kelleher

2018

After Jimmy Byrne is gunned down in cold blood, his twenty-year-old daughter Nancy takes over the Byrne gang determined to avenge him. Running a violent empire while her family unravels, she learns that the deadliest threat might be coming from inside her own home.

The Promise

by Casey Kelleher

2017

Growing up with a violent, drug-addicted mother, sisters Georgie and Marnie Parker learn early how cruel the world can be. When their mum is jailed for murdering a client and they fall under gangster Delray Anderton’s control, the girls must fight for survival and keep a devastating secret.

The Betrayed

by Casey Kelleher

2017

Colleen Byrne thinks she has escaped her poor past when she marries Soho crime boss Jimmy Byrne and moves into a world of diamonds and fur. Twenty years later, after Jimmy is found savagely murdered, their daughter Nancy will tear the family apart to hunt his killer.

The Taken

by Casey Kelleher

2016

After her father dies leaving huge debts, aspiring ballerina Saskia Frost is forced to dance in a London strip club run by ruthless brothers Joshua and Vincent Harper. Meanwhile, young mother Lena Cona flees an abusive marriage, only to fall into another predator’s trap.

Bad Blood

by Casey Kelleher

2014

In Soho’s criminal underworld, retired boxer Harry Woods has built a life of money, flash cars and fierce loyalty. When buried truths and old grudges resurface, his tight-knit family risks tearing itself apart, proving that without loyalty, blood alone is not enough.

Heartless

by Casey Kelleher

2013

After serving eight years for a murder she did not commit, Sophia O’Hagan walks out of prison determined to reclaim her life. Haunted by the loss of her beloved Tommy and a shattered family, she must face the dangerous secrets that put her inside.

Rotten To The Core

by Casey Kelleher

2012

On a tough London estate, Billy O’Connell has waited ten years to punish Den Shaw for destroying his family. As the feud with the Shaws explodes, Billy’s sister Kate falls for Den’s son Jay, a choice that could destroy them all.

Rise and Fall

by Casey Kelleher

2012

Life on the estate finally seems good for Louise Alden, with money in her pocket and a charming new boyfriend, until she uncovers a deadly secret. As ruthless gangster Jerell Morgan rises through London’s underworld, Louise is dragged into his violent path.

Where should I start?

If you want gritty London gangland drama: Rotten To The CoreRise and FallHeartlessBad Blood.
If you like crime family sagas: The BetrayedThe BrokenThe Forgotten.
If you prefer tense police procedurals: No EscapeNo FearNo Going Back.
If you enjoy psychological domestic thrillers: MINEI'll Never TellOnly ChildThe Babysitter’s Secret.

Author bio

Casey Kelleher was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, and grew up with her head in a book. She loved stories about danger and survival, especially gritty crime thrillers and gangland novels, and those early obsessions quietly shaped the kind of writer she would become.

As a teenager she became a mum at seventeen, juggling nappies, night feeds and school runs long before most of her friends were thinking about families. Later she trained as a holistic therapist and spent a decade working in busy spas and salons across the south east of England, learning to listen carefully to other people’s stories.

The idea of writing her own novel came from closer to home. In his nineties, Casey’s grandfather had begun a book of his own, and even though he only managed a few chapters before he died, the sight of his pages stayed with her. If he could start a story late in life, she thought, maybe she could try too.

At the time she was working full time as a beauty therapist and raising three young sons with her husband, so writing began as a secret late-night hobby. Tap by tap, in borrowed hours, she wrote what became her debut, Rotten To The Core, a gangland novel set on a tough London estate. When readers discovered it, the book’s success allowed her to leave the salon and write full time.

She followed that first book with a run of hard-edged crime novels, including Rise and Fall, Heartless, Bad Blood, The Taken and The Promise. Those stories share a fascination with the criminal underworld, but they are just as interested in the women, families and children who have to live with the fallout of that world.

In the Byrne Family trilogy, beginning with The Betrayed and continuing in The Broken and The Forgotten, she digs into one crime dynasty over decades. Gang boss Jimmy Byrne, his wife Colleen and their daughter Nancy move through a world of Soho clubs, family feuds and violent retribution, and the books show how loyalty, love and ambition can twist when power is on the line.

More recently, Casey has split her time between gangland stories and police procedurals and psychological suspense. The DC Lucy Murphy trilogy, starting with No Escape and running through No Fear and No Going Back, follows a young detective who returns to the estate where she once witnessed her mother’s murder. Her standalones such as MINE, I’ll Never Tell and Only Child lean into domestic secrets, gaslighting and the fear that the people you trust most might be hiding the worst truths.

Casey still lives in the UK with her family and writes full time. She talks openly about her coffee habit, her love of reality TV and the spoilt dog who keeps her company while she works, but underneath that easygoing surface is a writer who takes crime and its consequences seriously. Book by book, she gives voice to people on the margins, especially women, and shows how much courage it can take simply to survive the worlds she writes about.

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