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Catherine Ryan Howard is an Irish award-winning and Internationally bestselling author of mystery, thriller and crime fiction novels.

Born in Cork, Ireland, she made her debut as a novelist in 2016 with Distress Signals, which was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller.

Catherine is also the author of 56 Days (2021), which was named the An Post Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year. She notably wrote while on Covid-19 lockdown in Dublin.

Her books have so far been translated into 18 different languages, selling multiple copies across the globe.

Prior to becoming a full-time crime fiction writer, Catherine worked as an administrator for a travel company in the Netherlands. She also worked as a front desk agent in a hotel in Walt Disney World, Florida.

Catherine currently lives in Dublin, Ireland, where she can be found binge-watching Netflix, procrastinating, and drinking too much coffee.

More about Catherine Ryan Howard

Genres: Crime Suspense, Mystery, Thriller

Born: 1982

Ireland

Website: https://catherineryanhoward.com/

Non Series

  • Distress Signals (2016)
  • The Liar's Girl (2018)
  • Rewind (2019)
  • The Nothing Man (2020)
  • 56 Days (2021)
  • Run Time (2022)

Omnibus Books

  1. Catherine Ryan Howard 4 Books Collection Set (Rewind, The Liar's Girl, Distress Signals, The Nothing Man) (2022)

Detailed book overview

Non Series

Distress Signals

The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "i'm sorry --S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her.

Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate --and to a woman, Estelle, who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before.

To get answers, Adam must confront some difficult truths about his relationship with Sarah. He must do things of which he never thought himself capable. And he must try to outwit a predator who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground.

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1538450284
Publisher: ‎Blackstone Publishing
The Liar's Girl

Her first love confessed to five murders. But the truth was so much worse.

Dublin's notorious Canal Killer, Will Hurley, is ten years into his life sentence when the body of a young woman is fished out of the Grand Canal. Though detectives suspect they are dealing with a copycat, they turn to Will for help. He claims he has the information the police need, but will only give it to one person - the girl he was dating when he committed his horrific crimes.

Alison Smith has spent the last decade abroad, putting her shattered life in Ireland far behind her. But when she gets a request from Dublin imploring her to help prevent another senseless murder, she is pulled back to face the past - and the man - she's worked so hard to forget.

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1782398998
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Rewind

PLAY

Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?

PAUSE

Natalie wishes she'd stayed at home as soon as she arrives in the wintry isolation of Shanamore. There's something creepy about the manager. She wants to leave, but she can't -- not until she's found what she's looking for ...

REWIND

Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive story about a murder caught on camera. You've already missed the start. To get the full picture you must rewind the tape and play it through to the end, no matter how shocking ...

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1786496584
Publisher: Corvus
The Nothing Man

I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him...

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life.

Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man—the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family’s killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim’s not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man.

Jim soon begins to realize how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won’t give up until she finds him. He has no choice but to stop her first …

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 978-1786496614
Publisher: Corvus
56 Days

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?

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 979-8200834389
Publisher: ‎Blackstone Publishing
Run Time

Movie-making can be murder.

Lights

Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn’t think twice before signing the dotted line.

Camera

Adele quickly makes her way to set, deep into the isolated and wintry woods of West Cork, Ireland, miles away from civilization and cell service.

Action

When real life on set starts to somehow mirror the sinister events portrayed in the script, Adele fears the real horror lies off the page. Isolated and unsure who in the crew she can trust, is there anywhere or any time left to run?

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2022
Ebook: B09S3Y7PYN
Publisher: ‎Blackstone Publishing

Omnibus Books

Catherine Ryan Howard 4 Books Collection Set (Rewind, The Liar's Girl, Distress Signals, The Nothing Man)

Catherine Ryan Howard 4 Books Collection Set:

The Nothing Man:

You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page his rage grows. Because Jim was - is - the Nothing Man.

Liar's Girl:

'A killer premise that totally delivers. A creepy, claustrophobic tale that never lets up on the tension while also managing to strike a truly tender note.' Caz Frear, bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies Dublin's notorious Canal Killer, Will Hurley, is ten years into his life sentence when the body of a young woman is fished out of the Grand Canal.

Distress Signals:

The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "i'm sorry --S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate.

Rewind:

Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive story about a murder caught on camera. You've already missed the start. To get the full picture you must rewind the tape and play it through to the end, no matter how shocking ...

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
First Release: 2022
ISBN: 978-9124220242
Publisher: Corvus/Blackstone Publishing/Atlantic Ltd