The Burning, Jane Casey
The Burning, Jane Casey
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The Burning

Author: Jane Casey

Narrator: Sarah Coomes

Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/08/2012

Synopsis

The Burning Man. It’s the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London’s parks. And now there’s a fifth.Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve’s empathy clouds her judgment, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving friends and family, the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. But how do you catch a killer no one has seen when so much of the evidence has gone up in smoke?Maeve’s frenetic hunt for a killer in The Burning, Jane Casey’s series debut, is a gripping introduction to one of the most engaging crime fiction characters in recent memory.

About Jane Casey

Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. She then studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, followed by an mPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Married to a criminal barrister, she lives in London and worked in publishing as a children's books editor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darcia on August 13, 2011

I have mixed feelings about this book. It was not the psychological thriller I expected. The pace is fairly slow and is more of a whodunit, police procedural read. That in itself wouldn't have been a disappointment, had it better captured my attention. I did like Maeve and can easily see her charact......more

Goodreads review by Janet on February 12, 2017

The Burning is the first book in the Maeve Kerrigan series. Kerrigan is a DC trying to impress in a man's world within her team. Based in South London, bodies are being found in remote areas, partially burned; the murders quickly turn into victims of 'The Burning Man.' The latest victim, a successfu......more

Goodreads review by Gary on September 26, 2015

This is the first book in the DC Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey. Having previously read and enjoyed 'After the Fire'which is the 6th book in the series, I decided to read the complete series and predictably started with the very first book 'The Burning'. I was interested to read other reviews f......more

Goodreads review by Maureen on December 15, 2016

This is a new author for me and the first in the series. This mystery follows Maeve Kerrigan, a young and determined police detective. The case she's involved in centers on the murders by a serial killer come to be known as the Burning Man, a person who brutalizes and burns women. When the fifth vic......more

Goodreads review by The Book Whisperer (aka Boof) on December 14, 2010

To be honest, when I picked this book up, I did think it was going to be a pretty run of the mill crime fic book about a serial killer but it turned out to be so much more than that. In fact, the serial killer (The Burning Man) is barely in the book at all. Instead, the story focuses on the “5th vic......more

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