Catherine

Ryan

Howard

Catherine Ryan Howard … has sentences that unspool like silk and a sly gift for misdirection. She disorients the reader by carefully withholding details and using sleight-of-hand chronological tricks. Again and again, you’ll blithely follow her down the wrong path.

New York Times

At or near the top of any list of superb Irish thriller writers these days is Catherine Ryan Howard … this is about as good as suspense fiction gets.

Washington Post

As brain-teasing as it is gripping, Ryan Howard’s psychologically dazzling novel somehow manages to also accommodate a layer of social critique, with sharp jabs at the way the police and the media handle the ‘Gone Girl’ missing women phenomenon.

Sunday Times