The Trap: The instant bestseller and Sunday Times Thriller of the Year

Her previous book The nothing man was the best thriller I read the year it was released (I still recommend it to people as a must read to this day) but since reading the nothing man I went and read all the books she had wrote and nothing was close to how amazing the Nothing Man was not even her previous new book Run Time 😬 🙈- that is until I read this book 🥰. I’m so glad I didn’t give up on the author. She’s back to her best. This book had everything you could want in a thriller (great writing, page turner, plot twists, emotion, felt so real it was scary)The amount of times I gasped out loud while reading The Trap and how you think you know what’s happening until bang !! The story is revealed and your minds blown 😮. Other than Riley Sager, Catherine Ryan Howard is the only other author I know who can do this and trust me for somebody who easily guesses what happens in thrillers -that’s something special. Can’t wait to read what she writes next just hope she continues to write books as great as this ❤️Special mention for the note from the author at the end of the book 🥺 and the surprise mention of The Nothing Man by the killer.

This is my first time to read a Catherine Ryan Howard novel and I will certainly be back for more. A very exciting story which kept me turning the pages. I was slightly disappointed with the ending (hence the 4 starts) but it won't keep me from reading more from this wonderful author

This book started off great however about half way in it seemed to stop making much sense, there were a few story lines within that don't ever get explained and an ending that seemed a bit far fetched. Unlikeable main character and when worse was the sister! I finished but it was a struggle really.

I bought this book for my wife & she is enjoying it

Great read and like all her books I think about the characters even when I'm not reading, however not as good as her previous one

I have read 52 books in 2023 and this is my lowest rating. I really did not enjoy it. This is my third book of 2023 by this author and my least favourite. I absolutley loved the nothing man, 56 days was just ok but this book really fell short for me.It started off strong and i really thought it was going to be brilliant but there was so many loose ends and it really felt like the author ran out of ideas in the final third of the book. So many parts of the story were unanswered the whole scenario with Caroline the friend was just left and never touched upon again.once i had finished the book i thought surely that cannot be the end i started to think i had missed chunks of it as it felt so unfinished that i started to go back through it to check.I would not recommend this book and i think this will be my last book by this author.

The book was quite gripping for I'd say two thirds. Then some rather peculiar plots appeared and the end was terrible, well it needed another chapter instead of leaving too many threads hanging. I suppose we are supposed to work it out for ourselves, but it's unsatisfactory and limp when it could have been really good.

Another cracking read from this author. Yes, it’s about a sister searching for her missing sister, and fearing she’s been taken by a potential predator. But it also gives such an insight into what people go through when their loved one suddenly goes missing. It also has flashes of humour and even a brief nod to two earlier books by Catherine Ryan Howard. The story is brilliant and the ending took my breath away. You really should read this!

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Well I may never sleep again! A thriller that doesn’t resort to gratuitous - in your face violence. The reader doesn’t need it spelled out. It’s there. Trust me. A psychological nightmare, told from different angles. A really good read.

Good story, I enjoyed the characters and the premise. The ending was a bit different but all in all a good read. Enjoy!

First, I love the way she writes, it all seems less like fiction and as if you're "listening " inside your head to real people about their lives and thoughts. Super writing style, and to me, that makes all the difference between a decent thriller and a great one. No cheesy dialogue here, no simp characters, none of the things that make me roll my eyes!And then the story, wow. Everything is going along and then CRH flips everything on its head, and it takes a bit to catch up, well done.I absolutely loved 56 Days, and this is it's equal. I look forward to what she comes up with next. Brava!(Also, the family dog is named Dexter after the fictional serial killer, and haha, my puppies have the surname Barkowitz, a puppified version of an actual serial killer!) 😄An all around excellent book & I can't recommend it and her other books enough. You won't be disappointed!

If ever there was a shop-worn, over-used plot device it's the one revolving around the missing person. You see it in so many current "thrillers"....the mysterious disappearance of a wife, a husband, a child, a girl-friend, a boy-friend, you name it. In this one, it's several young women who've gone missing. The local (Irish) male cops don't seem all that interested in finding them. And this disinterest seems to infect the narrative as we trudge through the efforts of a live-wire lady cop to seek a solution, trudge being the operative word. I'm prepared ro suspend belief to a certain extent, but when the sister of one of thr victims knowingly gets in the serial abductor's car at dead of night on a lonely road, with no means of defending herself, I found it just too much to swallow. There is an unsatisfactory unresolved ending which indicated the author had become too exhausted and disinterested to tie up all the loose ends. I felt exactly the same.