Things weren’t great for Maeve Kerrigan at the end of The Burning, the first in the series of crime novels by Jane Casey. Attacked by a serial killer; dealing with the machismo and misogyny of her fellow police officers and starting a perilous relationship with her colleague Rob Langton had left Kerrigan in a fragile…
Being a female Irish crime writer seems to lead to inevitable comparisons with Tana French. I can understand publishers wishing to capitalise on French’s success, but I think it does a disservice to Jane Casey, who is writing a very different type of procedural but just happens to come from the same place. The Burning…
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