Ken's Reviews > The Burning

Having enjoyed some of the more recent titles in the Maeve Kerrigan series, I decided to get the first book in the series to help fill in the gaps.
Maybe it was high expectations from liking the others, which meant that this inevitably was a disappointing read - but the introductory novel to the character certainly felt a lot more slowly plodding.

I think the simple reason why this felt bloated as the identity of the murderer was pretty easy to spot early on, so it was frustrating that this procedural was taking the police so long to solve.

Thankfully I know that this series does improve.
So even though this was a weakly executed mystery surrounding a serial killer, it's worth sticking with.