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Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins, John Keating
Catherine Ryan HowardUnabridged — 9 hours, 10 minutes
Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins, John Keating
Catherine Ryan HowardUnabridged — 9 hours, 10 minutes
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Catherine Ryan Howard’s 56 Days is a former B&N Mystery/Thriller Monthly Pick selection and The Trap delivers on those same goods. Told from multiple points of view with the same urgency of narrative, this is a maze of twists, turns and false flags that will keep you guessing til the end.
From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the nineties, wherein one young woman risks everything to catch a faceless killer.
One year ago, Lucy's sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy's life into a waking nightmare. So, she's going to take matters into her own hands.
Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully fledged member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. With the official investigation into the missing women stalled, she begins pulling on a thread that could break the case wide open-and destroy her chances of ever joining the force.
A nameless man drives through the night, his latest victim in the back seat. He's going to tell her everything, from the beginning. And soon, she'll realize: what you don't know can hurt you ...
The clarity of the voices and the perfection of the audio itself make it a pleasure to hear. Alana Kerr Collins’s lilting Irish brogue is a treasure…John Keating’s performance of the male point of view is just as cold and calculating as the villain he portrays.”
It’s no surprise Catherine Ryan Howard has done it again. I’m always amazed and flabbergasted by her books, and The Trap is no exception. Howard’s creativity knows no bounds, and neither do her twists! I dare you to figure this one out.”
Catherine Ryan Howard always delivers, and The Trap might be her most electrifying thriller yet. Told by a victim, a relative, an investigator, and a killer, The Trap takes a classic crime story and twists it into something vast, emotional, and absolutely terrifying.”
This one will chill you to the bone! The Trap is a taut police procedural, psychological thriller, and family drama crafted into one brilliant, breathless thrill ride. This might be my favorite Catherine Ryan Howard novel yet!”
Dark, gripping, and terrifying with a killer final twist in the blistering, head-spinning final pages. Utterly brilliant!”
Not only does [Howard] bring the spirit of those cold cases to the forefront of her story, she adds her own unique spin on how it might have happened and who could have been behind these kidnappings.”
Howard, the author of the wonderful 56 Days…has sentences that unspool like silk and a sly gift for misdirection…Again and again, you’ll blithely follow her down the wrong path.”
A skillful, compelling read. I absolutely loved it.”
A breakneck thriller with so many twists and turns that your head will spin. I absolutely tore through The Trap.”
Intelligent, terse, and propulsive, The Trap is a headlock of a book that refuses to let you go until you find out what happened. And when you do, it will blow your socks off. Prepare to be ensnared in Catherine Ryan Howard’s very clever (but equally sinister) net.”
Catherine Ryan Howard is a gifted storyteller and The Trap is her best book yet. From the dramatic opening chapter right the way through the twists and turns of this cleverly-plotted novel, the tension never lets up. Sinister, compelling, utterly addictive, this is heart-in-mouth stuff. Crime writing at its very best.”
Add it to your must-buy lists, because it is fantastic…Howard’s books really stand out as some of the absolute best, with clever plotting, interesting and often funny characters, and excellent twists. A real treat for anyone who loves an atmospheric thriller.”
Topical, twisty, and with a real heart-stopper of a moment halfway in that’ll make you turn the lights back on.”
A taut, gripping page-turner. Catherine Ryan Howard at her dark and disturbing best.”
Catherine Ryan Howard is an absolute master of suspense and her latest thriller, The Trap, is an utter triumph! Pulse-pounding, heart-wrenching, with razor-sharp commentary and twist after ingenious twist, I raced through this suspense, desperate to find out what was going to happen next. And my mind was blown when I did! A must-read for summer.”
A white-knuckle ride of a serial-killer thriller.”
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.”
“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.”
The Trap is an irresistibly suspenseful, heart-pounding read, full of perfectly executed twists. I never wanted to stop turning the pages. It has everything anyone could possibly want in a thriller.”
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.”
A heart-in-your-mouth, punch-you-in-the-gut, gripping thriller. Everything you’d expect from a Ryan Howard read. Chilling, page-turning, and shocking! This book will leave you breathless, terrified, and desperate for more.”
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.”
07/21/2023
Howard's propulsive new thriller (after Run Time) is inspired by a spate of unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the 1990s. The author examines the devastating effects of "not knowing" for the families of disappeared women. Lucy O'Sullivan's sister Nicki left a Dublin pub a year earlier and never came home. Every waking moment of Lucy's life since is an obsessive and reckless drive to "trap" the killer and find out what happened to Nicki, as well as three other women who the Irish police believe are connected. Lucy makes herself into bait on dark, lonesome roads to attract the women's killer and gain the dangerous knowledge that could potentially make her his next victim. Meanwhile, Angela Fitzgerald—a civilian working for the Missing Persons Unit—comes into possession of a bloody clue that hints at a fifth victim. She teams up with detective Denise Pope to find answers, hoping that her instincts will earn her a spot with the An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. VERDICT This scary, twisting, and psychologically incisive commentary on the recent increase in missing and murdered women in Ireland will leave readers guessing until the gut-punching reveal.—Peggy Kurkowski
The case of a missing woman who is presumed dead haunts her sister, Lucy, who knows in her heart that her sister is alive . . . somewhere. Convincing the police in Ireland is another matter. The production beauty of this audiobook is staggering. The clarity of the voices and the perfection of the audio itself make it a pleasure to hear. Alana Kerr Collins's lilting Irish brogue is a treasure, even if the subject matter of the story is disconcerting. In contrast, John Keating's performance of the male point of view is just as cold and calculating as the villain he portrays. The writing runs on a bit but, overall, is worth listening to as Lucy finally persuades a civilian police worker to take another look at the case. From there, everything spirals out of control. M.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
| BN ID: | 2940192509173 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2023 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Sales rank: | 464,130 |
