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 makes her weak, 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 Jane Casey's gripping series debut will entrance even the most jaded suspense readers.

Published
November 1, 2010
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Jane Casey

Long before she began crafting the tightly wound psychological thrillers that keep readers wide-eyed and sleepless, Jane Casey was already tuned into the quiet tension of the world around her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a household steeped in literature—her mother a teacher, her father a professor—storytelling was less a hobby than a birthright. But it wasn’t until she moved to Oxford to study English, and later London to edit crime fiction, that she began to shape her own voice—one steeped in moral ambiguity, slow-burning tension, and the shadows we carry inside ourselves. Casey didn’t come to crime fiction to glorify violence or create…