The Burning
A Novel
Maeve Kerrigan: Book #1
- By: Jane Casey
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
- Length: 14 hours 53 minutes
Description
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.
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Maeve Kerrigan Series

The Burning
By: Jane Casey
Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
Length: 14 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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The Reckoning
By: Jane Casey
Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
To the public, he’s a hero: a brutal killer who targets sex offenders. To most of London’s police force, he’s the suspect in a gruesome, time-consuming case to be avoided. But to Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan, he’s a murderer—no matter the sins of his victims—and catching him is her job. Assigned to the case with the division’s unreadable... Read more »
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The Last Girl
By: Jane Casey
Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“Maeve Kerrigan [is] a fascinating and plausible character.… What she has is persistence, integrity, and emotional intelligence, and a very deft way of insinuating herself into a reader’s affections.” —The Irish Independent (UK)
Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the... Read more »
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