The Nothing Man

Catherine Ryan Howard

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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 ...

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Blackstone Publishing

A debut thriller that channels Gone Girl, from the newest writer to watch, Catherine Ryan HowardThe 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.

Distress Signals

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Blackstone Publishing, Inc.

*Winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award for Best Mystery* A debut thriller that channels Gone Girl, from the newest writer to watch, Catherine R. Howard. 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 ...

[Read by Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth, and Gary Furlong] Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College -- and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital. Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John's and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed . . . and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer -- and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who'd been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back. When a young woman's body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess -- but there's only one person he's prepared to confess it to. The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she's worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn't set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become. Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all . . .

The Liar's Girl

Mystery

2019 Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin s elite St. John s College and Ireland s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city s Central Psychiatric Hospital.
Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John s and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed ... and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who d been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back.
When a young woman s body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess but there s only one person he s prepared to confess it to.
The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she s worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn t set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.
Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all ...

A debut thriller that channels Gone Girl, from the newest writer to watch, Catherine Ryan Howard. 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.

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 beings 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 ...

Review ''This is probably one of the best books I ever read... I absolutely loved the book within a book format... The author did a fantastic job, and if you are a fan of Meg Gardiner, which I am, you will love this book.'' --Seattle Book Review ''[A] compulsive thriller...Those familiar with Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark, which inspired Howard, may spot similarities between the Nothing Man and the real-life Golden State Killer, but Howard (nominated for an Edgar for The Liar's Girl) takes her story in other directions. The Nothing Man is an ingenious nesting doll, revealing surprises in alternating chapters from Eve's book and those from the killer's point of view as he reads said book. Howard can paint moving depictions of grief and survivor's guilt while terrifying readers and making them triple-check the locks on their doors. This isn't nothing; it's the author's best work yet.'' --Shelf Awareness (starred review) ''It might be cliché to say that a strong storytelling tradition runs in Irish genes, but...Cork native and current Dubliner Catherine Ryan Howard would seem to be indicative of this... This juxtaposition of predator and prey -- and the underlying question of just who is which -- renders the stakes breathtakingly high. It's a clever, meta construct -- and one the author fully, and frankly, embraces... The Nothing Man is clearly influenced by Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone In The Dark... but don't be mistaken: it's still very much a work of fiction, albeit one that's grounded in the realities of crime, recidivism, and victimization. The Nothing Man himself may be quite ordinary, but Catherine Ryan Howard's book-within-a-book is anything but.'' --Strand Magazine ''Fiendishly clever...Howard uses serial killer tropes in original and surprising ways in this tour de force.'' --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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

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The Nothing Man

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Distress Signals

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The Liar's Girl

The Liar's Girl

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The Nothing Man

The Nothing Man

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