Product Description
The Burning
Author: Jane Casey
Format: Paperback
The gripping detective crime thriller from the bestselling author
The First Book in the Gripping Maeve Kerrigan Series
'Jane Casey's police procedurals go from strength to strength!' — Sunday Times
'If you have not read Jane Casey, start immediately' — Marian Keyes
'The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction. . .' — Erin Kelly
A serial killer who wants to watch you burn.
The media call him The Burning Man, 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 the fifth victim has been found.
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 ever seen? And when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke. . .?
Praise for Jane Casey
'A brilliant example of nothing being as it seems' — Harriet Tyce
'Pacy plotting' — Sunday Times Crime Club
'Jane Casey is among our very best crime novelists' — Liz Nugent
'Chilling and inventive' Woman's Weekly
'A deliciously bingeable read' — Ruth Ware
'Simply stunning' — Heat
'A chilling read' — Woman
About the Author
Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. A former editor, she has written twelve crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. Her books have been international bestsellers, critically acclaimed for their realism and accuracy. The Maeve Kerrigan series has been nominated for many awards: in 2015 Jane won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Stranger You Know and Irish Crime Novel of the Year for After the Fire. In 2019, Cruel Acts was chosen as Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was a Sunday Times bestseller. The Killing Kind was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2021 and has been adapted for television by Eleventh Hour and Paramount+, releasing September 2023 and broadcast on ITV in the UK and Hulu in America. The Close has been shortlisted for the E-Dunnit award at the 2024 CrimeFest Awards. Her most recent novel, A Stranger in the Family, spent 6 weeks on the Irish Times bestseller list and was named one of The Times 10 Best Crime & Thrillers of 2024. It won Crime Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the overall Book of the Year Award at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards.
Jane lives in southwest London with her husband, who is a criminal barrister, and their two children.
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