Catherine Ryan Howard

Catherine Ryan Howard is the author of eight novels including the no. 1 bestsellers The Nothing Man, 56 Days and The Trap. Her work has been shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Crime Writers Association New Blood and Steel Daggers, and Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year multiple times. The screen adaptation of her lockdown thriller, 56 Days, is currently in production and will debut on Prime Video in February 2026. She lives in Dublin.

Books by Catherine Ryan Howard

Burn After Reading

A ghostwriter is tasked with capturing the memoirs of a celebrity widely suspected of murder; now she's locked in an interview room with a killer and he's ready to confess...

The Trap

Catherine Ryan Howard

Will the killer take the bait? A young woman sets out to track down her sister's killer, in this explosive and original thriller from Irish bestseller Catherine Ryan Howard.