Catherine Ryan Howard has been a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel and John Creasey (New Blood)
Daggers, and Irish Crime Novel of the Year multiple times.
The Nothing Man, her mix of true crime and crime fiction, was a no. 1 bestseller in her native Ireland. She is currently based in Dublin, where she divides her time between the desk and the couch.
Howard's new novel,
56 Days, is a thriller about a couple locked down together in Dublin that the author wrote while she was locked down in Dublin.
At CrimeReads she tagged
five favorite dangers-of-dating thrillers, including:
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Twenty-something Catherine exists rather than lives in London, isolated, mistrustful and struggling with crippling OCD. 
But when we flashback to just four years earlier, we meet a confident and outgoing party-girl who relishes a drunken night on the town with her friends – until, on one of those nights, she meets Lee. What happened in between that wreaked such havoc on Catherine’s life? And what will happen now that Lee is being released from prison? Where this thriller is in a league of its own is in its depiction of the slow, insidious nature of domestic abuse and coercive control. If you’ve ever wondered ‘Why didn’t she just leave?’, this novel has a definitive answer for you: because by the time there was any reason to, it was already too late. Truly terrifying and forever my recommendation for an exceptional psychological thriller that you may have missed first time around.
Read about
another entry on the list.
Into the Darkest Corner is among
Shalini Boland's five savviest, toughest women in crime fiction and
Jane Robins's top ten creepy psychological thrillers.
--Marshal Zeringue
Daggers, and Irish Crime Novel of the Year multiple times. The Nothing Man, her mix of true crime and crime fiction, was a no. 1 bestseller in her native Ireland. She is currently based in Dublin, where she divides her time between the desk and the couch.
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