56 Days
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A Nerd Daily Pick of August New Releases
A London Guardian Pick of the Best Recent Crime & Thrillers
Winner of the 2021 An Post Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction
A New York Times Pick of the Best Thrillers of 2021
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Washington Post Pick of 2021's Best Thrillers
A Napa Valley Register Pick of Thrillers & Crime Fiction
A Business Insider Pick of Books about the Covid Pandemic
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A Barnes & Noble Pick of the Month's Top Thrillers
Don’t miss The Trap, the latest dark and twisted thriller from internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard—inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances.
A New York Times Best Thriller of 2021
A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2021
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Editors’ Pick
"Bloody good." —The New York Times
"Timely, surprising, emotionally alive, this is about as good as suspense fiction gets." —Washington Post
No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead.
56 DAYS AGO
Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores.
35 DAYS AGO
When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who—and what—he really is.
TODAY
Detectives arrive at Oliver’s apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.
Can they determine what really happened, or has lockdown created an opportunity for someone to commit the perfect crime?
Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers from award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard:
- Distress Signals
- The Liar’s Girl
- Rewind
- The Nothing Man
- Run Time
- The Trap
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