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The Burning
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  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781804942642
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

The Burning

The gripping detective crime thriller from the bestselling author

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Paperback
21 Oct 2023
EBook
16 June 2022
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The first book in Jane Casey's gripping Maeve Kerrigan series. A tense crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Claire Douglas, Lisa Jewell and Clare Mackintosh.

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
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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. . .?
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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
  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781804942642
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

About the author

Jane Casey

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.
portrait photo of Jane Casey

Also by Jane Casey

The Last Girl
Hide and Seek
After the Fire
The Kill
Bet Your Life
Left For Dead: A Maeve Kerrigan Story
The Stranger You Know
See all

Praise for The Burning

November 2010 Book of the Month. This is the new psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of The Missing. It's gripping and utterly compulsive, leaving you gasping for breath as you get to the last page

Love Reading

Cracks along at a smart pace and has a satisfying multi-layered plot

Candis

Casey rarely puts a foot wrong in this enthralling example of a bait-and-switch novel...Parallel first-person narratives from either side of the thin blue line contribute hugely to the novel's page-turning quality, although the author's success here is largely due to her superb characterisations. The Burning confirms that she's a talent to watch.

Irish Times

The Burning, is an excellent follow up, with a psychologically interesting plot and complex, well-drawn characters

Irish Independent

The number of convincing police officers in crime fiction is a tiny squad but Maeve has the potential to be one of the few female members

Daily Telegraph

Astute, complex, layered - and very twisted. You'll remember this one for a long time

Lee Child