The Burning

Title: The Burning
Author: Jane Casey

















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Synopsis:

The Burning Man.  He's the serial killer that has the people of London terrified.  Finding young woman, killing them, and then burning their bodies beyond recognition.  With four bodies already found through the course of five months, a fifth body is found.  Is it The Burning Man's work, or that of a copycat killer?

Maeve Kerrigan is on the murder task force and has been following the cases of these women.  She wants The Burning man caught before he can kill again.  She wants to show the others on the force that she is more than just a pretty face and that she deserves to be on the force just as much as they do.  With the fifth murder, she hopes that she can break the case and finally be respected.  Rebecca Haworth is the latest victim and Maeve is determined to find the murderer.  She believes it wasn't The Burning Man who killed her.  But who then?

My Thoughts:

I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars.  It wasn't fast paced like I had hoped when I began reading.  It starts off with a case of a girl attacking a man who she thought was The Burning Man.  But they never went back to that story until the very end.  By the time I had gotten to that point, I forgot all about that happening at the beginning.  Casey should've brought that out throughout the book.  There were parts that dragged on so much that I ended up skimming through.  Chapters were written that weren't needed.  And for a book about finding a serial killer, Casey emphasized too much on Maeve looking for Rebecca's killer and not so much on who this serial killer was.  I think more action with finding The Burning Man himself would've made this book more interesting.

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