'The Killing Kind' to Be Adapted for Paramount+

Paramount+ has been going full speed ahead with the global series since launching in the U.K. Its parent company, Paramount, at the time declared it wanted to put 50 international series in production for 2023. While it's unclear if it hit that target, the sheer dint of upcoming U.K. series coming in 2023 and 2024 suggests the company certainly tried to get close. The latest in the greenlit series is an adaptation of Jane Casey's The Killing Kind, her latest standalone mystery thriller whodunit, which only came out in 2021.

Casey's first novel, The Missing, featuring lead character Sarah Finche, was shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award in 2010. A standalone mystery, it was the only one-off Casey did before The Killing Kind. In between, she's penned 13 novels in her Maeve Kerrigan series (with another coming in 2023), named for her determined young police constable slowly rising through the London ranks at the MET. She also published a trilogy of YA-focused mystery novels under the moniker of the Jess Tennant series, where the teen sleuth gets into solving mysteries after her cousin dies under mysterious circumstances.

The Killing Kind introduces a new crime solver to Casey's roster, Ingrid Lewis, a barrister whose life accidentally imploded after becoming involved with her latest client. But when he returns to her life to tell her she's the target of a new killer, her life becomes even more upended than she could have imagined.