The Trap
A BookBub Editors' Pick of Summer's Best Mysteries & Thrillers
A New York Post Pick of Action-Packed Summer Reads
An Image Magazine Pick of Beach Reads
An Apple Best Book of the Month for August 2023
A Nerd Daily Pick of the Month
An Audible Pick of Thriller & Suspense New Releases
A Kobo Pick of the Month's Best Mysteries
A CrimeReads Pick of the Week
An OverDrive Pick of Biggest Books of the Month
A VIP Magazine Choice of the Top 10 Books of Summer
A PopSugar Pick of New Mysteries
A BookRiot Pick for August
A Barnes & Noble Pick of the Month's Best Thrillers
A She Reads of Most Anticipated Thrillers
A London Guardian Pick of Best Recent Crime & Thriller Writing
A Barnes & Noble Favorite Indie Book of August & September
A Criminal Element Pick of the Month's Most Anticipated Reads
A New York Times Pick of Thrillers Spiked with Terror, Dread & Melancholy
A Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Top Pick in Thrillers
From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the nineties, wherein one young woman risks everything to catch a faceless killer.
One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy’s life into a waking nightmare. So, she’s going to take matters into her own hands.
Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully fledged member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. With the official investigation into the missing women stalled, she begins pulling on a thread that could break the case wide open—and destroy her chances of ever joining the force.
A nameless man drives through the night, his latest victim in the back seat. He’s going to tell her everything, from the beginning. And soon, she’ll realize: what you don’t know can hurt you …
Praise