Jane Corry
Jane Corry has published 12 books across 3 series. The recommended reading order starts with My Husband's Wife (2016).
Jane Corry is a British author and journalist whose novels have sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Her experience working for three years as the writer in residence at a high-security male prison deeply informed her writing, leading to her Sunday Times top ten bestsellers My Husband's Wife, Blood Sisters, and The Dead Ex, among others. My Husband's Wife, her debut thriller, was inspired by her time in the prison and has been optioned for television adaptation. Corry also served as an RLF Fellow at Exeter University and was a creative writing tutor at Oxford University. She continues to write short stories and features for publications like The Daily Telegraph and speaks at literary festivals globally, often finding inspiration during morning jogs along the beach.
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Order of Anthologies
- Tags---DescriptionLove Stories is an anthology first published in 2022 from Jane Corry.Publication date2022
Order of Short Stories/Novellas
- TagsthrillermysterysuspenseDescriptionSusie and her sister Danielle barely speak anymore, so when Danielle messages out of nowhere and begs to meet, Susie knows something is wrong. What Danielle tells her sounds impossible: her husband Simon might be a bully, but would he really hurt her? Susie wants to dismiss it as paranoia. Then the accident happens. The Killing Type is a psychological thriller that forces Susie to reconsider everything she thought she knew about her sister's marriage. Someone is lying about what happened. Someone is telling the truth. The question is who — and whether Simon, for all his cruelty, is actually capable of violence, or whether the danger is coming from somewhere else entirely. Susie has to decide which story to believe, and the answer will determine who the killing type really is.Publication date2018
Order of Standalone Novels
- TagsthrillersuspensemysterycrimeDescriptionLily is a young lawyer determined to leave her past behind when she marries Ed and starts fresh. Then she takes on her first murder case and meets Joe, a convicted killer to whom she feels a strange pull. The attraction deepens until she is willing to risk nearly everything for him — but the secrets she buried refuse to stay quiet. Her next-door neighbor Carla is only nine years old, yet she has already learned that secrets are currency. They can get her whatever she wants, and she knows how to use them. Twelve years later, Carla appears on Lily's doorstep. My Husband's Wife is a psychological thriller that follows the chain of events set in motion by that arrival — a collision between the lies Lily told to build her new life, the man she risked it all for, and the girl who watched her do it. The novel moves between the early years of Lily's marriage and the reckoning that comes when Carla returns, and the question at its center is whether any of them can survive the truths they've been hiding.Publication date2016Amazon rating3.8/5
- TagsthrillersuspenseDescriptionBlood Sisters is a psychological thriller about two women bound by a childhood tragedy neither can escape. Three little girls walked to school one sunny May morning fifteen years ago. Within an hour, one of them was dead. Kitty now lives in a care home, unable to speak and claiming no memory of the accident that put her there. Alison, an art teacher barely making ends meet, takes a job teaching in a prison — a chance, she believes, to finally make things right. But alarming notes begin arriving, followed by a vicious assault on a prisoner while her back is turned. When a promising new student joins her class, the threats seem to stop. The calm does not last. Someone is watching both women. Someone who knows what really happened that morning and wants revenge for the girl who died. The notes, the violence, and the surveillance all point toward a single conclusion: only another life will settle the debt. As the past closes in, the question becomes whether Kitty's silence and Alison's guilt are protection or confession — and which of them will pay the price.Publication dateJanuary 30, 2018Amazon rating3.9/5Print length480LanguageEnglishPublisherRandom House Large Print
- TagsthrillersuspensecrimemysteryDescriptionI Looked Away is a psychological thriller about a grandmother whose moment of distraction may be evidence of something far darker. Ellie is forty-nine, and every Monday she cares for her grandson Josh, whom she loves more than anyone. Her husband has had an affair, but he insists it ended, and Ellie has chosen to focus on what she still has. Then one Monday, while Josh is in her care, her husband receives a call from that woman. For just a moment, Ellie looks away from her grandson. What happens in that moment changes everything. An accident, Ellie calls it. But she is hiding something from her past, and now the accident is starting to look like murder. The novel moves between Ellie's present-day crisis and the secret she has carried for years, a secret that casts her lapse in attention in a new and dangerous light. The question at the center is whether Ellie made a mistake or whether, for reasons she cannot admit, she let it happen.Publication dateJune 21, 2019Amazon rating4.4/5Print length467LanguageEnglishPublisherPenguin
- TagssuspensecrimethrillerDescriptionThe Dead Ex is a psychological thriller about four women connected by one missing man. Vicki, an aromatherapist, is working from her home studio when police arrive with news: her ex-husband David has disappeared. She insists she last saw him years ago at their divorce, but the officers don't believe her. Worse, her memory is unreliable enough that she can't be certain she had nothing to do with it. David's new wife Tanya reported him missing, but her account of that night raises more questions than it answers. Years earlier, eight-year-old Scarlet doesn't understand that the game her mother Zelda makes her play is actually drug dealing. When Zelda is arrested, Scarlet is placed into foster care, where the years will leave marks she carries into adulthood. Now these four women are bound by David's vanishing, and Vicki must prove her innocence when she can't trust her own mind. The answer lies in how their lives intersect and in the one person none of them can escape.Publication dateFebruary 5, 2019Amazon rating4.2/5Print length496LanguageEnglishPublisherRandom House Large Print
- TagsthrillermysterysuspenseDescriptionPoppy Page has always known which kind of woman she is: the faithful kind. Then Matthew Gordon walks back into her life after almost twenty years, and she makes a single mistake. I Made a Mistake is a psychological thriller about what happens when one night with the wrong man turns into something far more dangerous than adultery. It started with a kiss. Now someone is dead, and someone has to pay. Poppy believed there were two types of women in this world — those who are faithful to their husbands, and those who are not — and she never questioned which side of that line she stood on. But Matthew is handsome, charming, and impossible to ignore. The mistake she makes with him will cost more than her marriage. The novel moves between the night that changed everything and the aftermath Poppy can't escape. Someone knows what she did. Someone is watching. And as the consequences of that one mistake spiral outward, the question becomes not whether Poppy will lose everything, but whether she will survive at all.Publication dateMay 28, 2020Amazon rating4.3/5Print length464LanguageEnglishPublisherPENGUIN
- TagsmysterysuspensethrillerDescriptionTo Tell The Truth / The Lies We Tell is a psychological novel about parents who discover how far they will go to protect their son. Sarah and Tom have always thought of themselves as good people — until their son Freddy comes home and tells them he has done something terrible. He begs them not to tell the police. The choice forces Sarah and Tom to test the limits of their marriage and their own morality. As the lies accumulate, Sarah is handed the perfect opportunity to get Freddy off the hook. The decision waiting for her is whether to save her son or save herself — and whether those two things can ever mean the same thing.Publication dateJune 17, 2021Amazon rating4.1/5Print length500LanguageEnglishPublisherPenguin
- TagsmysterysuspensethrillerDescriptionEmily made one bad decision, and now her career could be over. We All Have Our Secrets is a psychological novel about the refuge she seeks — and the stranger who has taken her place. Emily retreats to her family home on the Cornish coast, the only place where she feels safe. When she arrives, a beautiful young woman is living with her father. Emily doesn't trust her. The woman is telling one lie after another, and Emily becomes obsessed with finding out the truth. The deeper Emily digs, the more the ground shifts beneath her. Every answer leads to another lie, every lie to another question. Her father's house was supposed to be her sanctuary, but the stranger has made it a battleground. Emily knows she's being lied to — but she's lying too. The question is whether some secrets should stay buried forever, or whether uncovering them is the only way out.Publication date2022Amazon rating4.1/5Print length400LanguageEnglishPublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- TagsthrillermysterysuspenseDescriptionNancy's mother and stepfather have been murdered, her stepbrother convicted in a trial that held the nation's attention. Coming To Find You is a psychological thriller about what happens when the verdict fails to end the nightmare. The press believes Nancy is hiding something about that night at the farmhouse, and their certainty drives her to flee. She disappears to Devon, to Tall Chimneys — her grandmother's secluded seaside inn, a place with its own buried wartime history. Then a letter arrives. Someone knows the truth about the murders. They know Nancy has been lying, and they promise to come find her. The threat is real because the sender has nothing left to lose. Nancy thought distance would protect her, but the past she ran from is closing in, and the secrets she carried out of that farmhouse may be the only thing standing between her and whoever is determined to track her down.Publication dateDecember 19, 2023Amazon rating4.2/5Print length437LanguageEnglishPublisherDoubleday Canada
- TagsmysterythrillercrimesuspenseDescriptionA white van rounds a corner on a quiet Tuesday morning and runs down eighteen-year-old Janie White, leaving her paralyzed and unable to speak. I Died on a Tuesday is a psychological thriller that begins with that hit-and-run in a small seaside town and picks up twenty years later, when the crime that has haunted the world finally finds its suspect. Janie was hours away from leaving for London and a career in book publishing. Instead, the collision destroyed her future and turned her story into a mystery no one could solve. Two decades pass. Then police arrive at the door of Robbie Manning, international pop star and family man, and arrest him for the attempted murder of Janie White. No one who knows Robbie can believe it — he is everything a model citizen should be. But Robbie does not deny it. He has been waiting for this moment, ready to accept the punishment he believes he deserves. Everyone wants to believe his confession. Janie has suffered long enough, and the world is desperate for answers. But the novel asks whether Robbie's version is the whole truth, and whether Janie — the only other witness to that morning — might tell a different story if she could.Publication dateDecember 17, 2024Amazon rating4.1/5Print length480LanguageEnglishPublisherDoubleday Canada
- TagsthrillermysterysuspenseDescriptionBelinda served fifteen years for murdering her husband, and now that she's free, she wants only one thing: a life where no one knows what she did. The Stranger in Room Six is a psychological thriller that begins when she takes a job at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart, determined to keep her past buried. Mabel, the home's oldest resident, has lived at Sunnyside since the Blitz left her there as an evacuee. She has spent decades guarding the house's secrets — the kind that could kill if they reached the wrong person. Someone in Room Six is watching them both. Listening. Digging into histories that neither woman can afford to have exposed. Belinda's conviction and Mabel's long-held knowledge make them both vulnerable, and the stranger knows it. As the past begins to surface, the question becomes whether either woman can protect what she's hidden — or whether the truth will destroy them both before they can stop it.Publication dateOctober 7, 2025Amazon rating3.9/5Print length427LanguageEnglishPublisherDoubleday Canada
Frequently Asked Questions about Jane Corry
Jane Corry writes standalone novels and short stories. Her books do not follow a connected series, so readers can begin with any title and enjoy the story independently. For those who prefer to read chronologically, the books can be read in order of publication. The anthologies and short story collections can be read separately from the novels. Her novels are My Husband's Wife (2016), Blood Sisters (2018), I Looked Away (2019), The Dead Ex (2019), I Made a Mistake (2020), and others published after 2020. The Killing Type is a collection of short stories published in 2018. Love Stories is an anthology from 2022.
A good starting point for Jane Corry's books is My Husband's Wife, published in 2016. This was her debut novel and established her style of writing psychological thrillers with compelling female characters. Following this, readers might explore Blood Sisters (2018), I Looked Away (2019), The Dead Ex (2019), or I Made a Mistake (2020). Her short story collection, The Killing Type (2018), and the anthology Love Stories (2022) offer different formats to experience her writing. Since her books are standalones, any title can serve as an entry point.
No, Jane Corry's books do not need to be read in a specific order. Each of her novels and short story collections functions as a standalone work. Readers can pick up any title and understand the plot and characters without prior knowledge of her other books. The publication dates of her novels are My Husband's Wife (2016), Blood Sisters (2018), I Looked Away (2019), The Dead Ex (2019), and I Made a Mistake (2020), among others. This allows readers the flexibility to start with whichever book appeals to them most.
Jane Corry writes standalone novels and short story collections. She does not write series in which characters or plots carry over from one book to the next. Her novels, such as My Husband's Wife (2016), Blood Sisters (2018), and I Made a Mistake (2020), can each be read and enjoyed independently. Similarly, her short story collection, The Killing Type (2018), and the anthology Love Stories (2022), are separate entities. Readers can select any of her published works without concern for a sequential reading order.
Jane Corry has written more than ten books. This includes multiple standalone novels, a collection of short stories, and an anthology. Her novels include My Husband's Wife (2016), Blood Sisters (2018), I Looked Away (2019), The Dead Ex (2019), and I Made a Mistake (2020), with at least five more novels published after 2020. She also published The Killing Type, a collection of short stories, in 2018, and Love Stories, an anthology, in 2022. The exact total number of her published works is over ten.
The first book Jane Corry wrote was My Husband's Wife, published in 2016. This novel marked her debut as a published author. It is a psychological thriller that introduces her characteristic storytelling style. Following this debut, she released Blood Sisters in 2018, and then continued with several more standalone novels and collections in the subsequent years. Readers interested in her earliest work can start with My Husband's Wife to understand the foundation of her literary career.
Jane Corry's most recent book is Love Stories, an anthology published in 2022. This collection brings together various narratives, showcasing different facets of her writing. Prior to this anthology, she published several standalone novels, including I Made a Mistake in 2020, and others released after that year. Her other notable works include The Killing Type (2018) and earlier novels like My Husband's Wife (2016) and Blood Sisters (2018). Love Stories represents her latest published work.
Jane Corry writes psychological thrillers. Her novels often explore complex relationships, secrets, and domestic suspense, focusing on female protagonists facing challenging circumstances. While her primary genre is thrillers, her work also incorporates elements of suspense and drama. The Killing Type is a collection of short stories, and Love Stories is an anthology, both of which offer a broader scope within narrative fiction. Her standalone novels consistently fall within the psychological thriller category, making her a recognized voice in this genre.
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