The Trap
The instant bestseller and Sunday Times Thriller of the Year
Published on 14. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-80499-116-9 (ISBN)
Description
'Dark, creepy and very clever, The Trap will lure you in and keep you captive until the very last page' - C L TAYLOR
'Elegant and twisty, it lingers in the memory' - Daily Mail
'Topical, twisty, and with a real heart stopper of a moment halfway in that'll make you turn the lights back on' - GILLIAN MCALLISTER
Chosen as Sunday Time's Thriller of the Month and as one of the 12 best thrillers of 2023 by The Times
Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts a lift from a passing stranger. It's the nightmare scenario that every girl is warned about, and she knows the dangers all too well - but what other choice does she have?
As they drive, she alternates between fear and relief - one moment thinking he is just a good man doing a good thing, the next convinced he's a monster. But when he delivers her safely to her destination, she realizes her fears were unfounded.
And her heart sinks. Because a monster is what she's looking for.
She'll try again tomorrow night. But will the man who took her sister take the bait?
Inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances, The Trap is the startlingly original new thriller from internationally bestselling author Catherine Ryan Howard.
'As brain-teasing as it is gripping . . . [a] psychologically dazzling novel' - Sunday Times
'Dark and witty and clever. An original and highly gripping read, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' - Alice Feeney
'Howard has a sly gift for misdirection . . . Again and again, you'll blithely follow her down the wrong path' - New York Times
'A breakneck thriller with so many twists and turns that your head will spin. I absolutely tore through The Trap' - Holly Seddon
** Don't miss Catherine Ryan Howard's 56 DAYS, coming soon to Amazon Prime Video! **
The Trap was an instant Irish Times bestseller and a Sunday Times Thriller of the Year
'Elegant and twisty, it lingers in the memory' - Daily Mail
'Topical, twisty, and with a real heart stopper of a moment halfway in that'll make you turn the lights back on' - GILLIAN MCALLISTER
Chosen as Sunday Time's Thriller of the Month and as one of the 12 best thrillers of 2023 by The Times
Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts a lift from a passing stranger. It's the nightmare scenario that every girl is warned about, and she knows the dangers all too well - but what other choice does she have?
As they drive, she alternates between fear and relief - one moment thinking he is just a good man doing a good thing, the next convinced he's a monster. But when he delivers her safely to her destination, she realizes her fears were unfounded.
And her heart sinks. Because a monster is what she's looking for.
She'll try again tomorrow night. But will the man who took her sister take the bait?
Inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances, The Trap is the startlingly original new thriller from internationally bestselling author Catherine Ryan Howard.
'As brain-teasing as it is gripping . . . [a] psychologically dazzling novel' - Sunday Times
'Dark and witty and clever. An original and highly gripping read, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' - Alice Feeney
'Howard has a sly gift for misdirection . . . Again and again, you'll blithely follow her down the wrong path' - New York Times
'A breakneck thriller with so many twists and turns that your head will spin. I absolutely tore through The Trap' - Holly Seddon
** Don't miss Catherine Ryan Howard's 56 DAYS, coming soon to Amazon Prime Video! **
The Trap was an instant Irish Times bestseller and a Sunday Times Thriller of the Year
Reviews / Votes
Topical, twisty, and with a real heart stopper of a moment halfway in that'll make you turn the lights back on. * Gillian McAllister, author of WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME * Everything a thriller should be: clever, page-tearing, devastating. Catherine Ryan Howard makes you feel for her characters so much, whether you love them or absolutely loathe them. It's impossible to stop reading - or to stop thinking about THE TRAP, long after you're done * Abigail Dean, author of GIRL A * Dark, creepy and very clever, The Trap will lure you in and keep you captive until the very last page. Catherine Ryan Howard is the Queen of the Unguessable Twist * C L Taylor * As brain-teasing as it is gripping . . . [a] psychologically dazzling novel * Sunday Times - Thriller of the Month * The Trap is everything you want in a book - breathless pace, clever plot, addictive characters, and very pertinent social commentary on how victims are judged. Whip smart, utterly absorbing, and unputdownable * Andrea Mara, author of ALL HER FAULT * Elegant and twisty, it lingers in the memory * Daily Mail * Dark and witty and clever. An original and highly gripping read, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Catherine Ryan Howard has a deliciously dark imagination and always tells a good tale. * Alice Feeney, author of DAISY DARKER * A propulsive thriller about a sister desperately trying to find her missing sibling. Twist after twist - left me simultaneously reeling and wanting more! * Sarah Pearse, author of THE SANATORIUM * Howard has a sly gift for misdirection . . . Again and again, you'll blithely follow her down the wrong path * New York Times * I was absolutely blown sideways by the twist . . . A white-knuckle ride of a serial killer thriller. A corker of a read. * Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80499-116-9 (9781804991169)
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E-Book
08/2023
Transworld Digital
€10.99
Available for download
Person
Catherine Ryan Howard is the author of nine novels including the no. 1 bestsellers The Nothing Man, 56 Days, The Trap and Burn After Reading. Her work has been shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Crime Writers Association New Blood and Steel Daggers, and Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year multiple times. The screen adaptation of her lockdown thriller, 56 Days, is streaming now on Prime Video. She lives in Dublin.