Catherine Ryan Howard

Catherine Ryan Howard is an award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland. Her debut thriller, Distress Signals, was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2016. It was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger.

Her subsequent work has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel. She has had two No. 1 Irish bestsellers, her novels have been translated into 17 languages and a number have been optioned for screen. Catherine’s thriller, 56 Days, was picked as Barnes and Noble Book of the Month in the US for August 2022 and her most recent novel, Run Time, has been selected for the prestigious Indie Next Pick for September 2022.

Catherine’s latest novel, The Trap, published in August 2023.

https://catherineryanhoward.com/

Praise for Catherine Ryan Howard:

‘56 Days is staggeringly accomplished at a technical level but it is its sustained emotional power that raises it to the first rank.’ Irish Times

‘Masterly… Timely, surprising, emotionally alive, this is about as good as suspense fiction gets.’ Washington Post

‘Catherine Ryan Howard is a master thriller writer and Run Time is up there with the best.’ Sarah Pearse

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