Catherine Ryan Howard is the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of seven novels.

Her work has been shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Crime Writers Association (UK) John Creasey/New Blood and Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Awards, and the An Post Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year multiple times. Her novels had been included in the New York Times Best Thrillers of the Year, the Washington Post’s Best Mysteries and Thrillers of the Year, the Sunday Times Best Thrillers of the Year, the New York Public Library’s Best Books for Adults and the Guardian’s 50 Best Thrillers by Women. She is published in 20 languages and a number of her titles have been optioned for screen. Find out more about Catherine’s books here.

Catherine’s fifth novel, the no. 1 bestseller 56 Days – a thriller about a couple locked down together in Dublin that Catherine wrote while she was locked down in Dublin in spring 2020 – won the An Post Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize. The TV adaptation, Obsession (Atomic Monster/Amazon MGM Studios) will debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

Prior to writing full-time, Catherine worked as an administrator for a travel company in the Netherlands and a front desk agent in a hotel in Walt Disney World, Florida. She was once obsessed with the idea of becoming a BSL4 virologist and she still hopes to be a NASA astronaut when she grows up. (She’s 41.) She was born in Cork, Ireland, but is currently based in Dublin where she is almost certainly binge-watching Netflix, drinking copious amounts of coffee and building LEGO.

Her latest novel is The Trap.