A serial killer is stalking London's streetsa The press have dubbed him The Burning Man. His victims all young women, each battered to death - their bodies left ablaze in public parks. And now the fifth body has been founda 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 fifth victim, Rebecca Haworth, via 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 all traces of evidence they leave behind have gone up in smoke?