Rating: 5*****
Published: 2011 by Isis
Synopsis:
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 seen? And when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke?
Hello Readers!
*Read till 04:00am, that says a lot.
I am happy I have set a goal to read all the books in the series, this year I was given the latest book “Let the Dead Speak” for review and I’m glad about it because I have read the Scandinavian crime along with other detectives from across the world but I had no knowledge about Jane Casey, well, unfortunately.
I enjoyed this book, it was more with explicit details and when the main character, Maeve was in scary situation my heart was with her and I, too was full of suspense. I found it interesting to see the character presented in the first book, her personal life struggles trying or let’s say given up a try to balance the work+relationship leaves the marks for one way or another, having read the Let the Dead Speak, I am intrigued what’s happening in the series of books in between.
So, The Burning is about finding the serial murder of various young woman badly murdered by burning them and cutting before hand. Seems the person has really hated woman as such. The story starts with so well with a very scary episode of the next victim…it sets the atmosphere and plays on woman readers. However, the team is sure the serial killer is about to get more thirsty and attack out of his pattern, by causing crime more often. The book is drawing more attention to the last victim Rebecca and those who knew her, Maeve tries to draw an image of whom the Rebecca was when she was alive, they receive quite a mixed point of views, which makes it way more difficult to understand how to solve the case.
The Burning is a crime, psychological detective. I give 5 stars because it was interesting, I was hooked for 7 hours and I was reading till 04:00am, it was scary but not overly, repeatedly gross or creepy. It was interesting and I had no clue who could be the guilty one!
I didn’t like this large print cover, although it does fit the story perfectly, actually, better than something really gross, the matches burning is fine.
Have you read any of the books from this series? I would be happy to hear what have you thought about the book!
I have ordered via library the next book in the series and I am looking forward, although the description for The Reckoning
