A year ago, Leo Stone was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life in prison. Now he's been freed on a technicality, and he's protesting his innocence. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent are determined to put Stone back behind bars where he belongs, but the more Maeve digs, the less convinced she is that he did it. Then another woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is there a copycat killer, or have they been wrong about Stone...

The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given 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 there's a fifth. Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy clouds her judgment, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving...

Champion of the mystery section in a Minnesota library, Karen Nash is embarking on a dream trip to London. But she is clueless why the love of her mid-life, Dave, would dump her hours before take-off, until she spies him at the airport with a young honey! She decides the best revenge is to get on that plane anyway and entertain schemes for Dave's untimely demise. After touching ground in the hallowed homeland of Christie, Sayers, and Peters, she checks...