Catherine Ryan Howard is an award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland. Her debut thriller, Distress Signals, was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger. Her subsequent work has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel. She has had two No. 1 Irish bestsellers, and her novels have been translated into 18 languages and a number have been optioned for screen.
