Jayne Cowie

Jayne Cowie tests social ideas through speculative thrillers and tightly controlled mysteries. After Dark imagines a society in which a curfew requires men to remain at home after 7 p.m., then unsettles that system when a woman is killed at night. Penguin released Cowie's 2022 debut before the story became the basis for the Paramount+ television series Curfew. Cowie's author biography describes her as a lifelong writer and keen reader living near London, while her fiction uses altered rules to examine power, public safety, and the assumptions behind an apparently orderly world.