56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

56 Days

by Catherine Ryan Howard

Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Crime Fiction Book of the Year

A Book of the Year for 2021 in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Irish Times
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'As good as suspense fiction gets' Washington Post

No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead.

56 DAYS AGO
Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores.

35 DAYS AGO
When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who - and what - he really is.

TODAY
Detectives arrive at Oliver's apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.

Can they determine what really happened, or has lockdown created an opportunity for someone to commit the perfect crime?

'Compulsive, intriguing and fantastically entertaining' Liz Nugent

Reviewed by Martha G on

4 of 5 stars

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This is like a 3.5 for me because it was interesting being set during COVID. It had some interesting twists but at the same time I don't think I cared enough about the characters. I liked the format of the detectives in present day and how it would go back 56 days, 23 days, etc to get the back story but there were times that I would scan the paragraphs a bit when you are hearing the same moment but through the perspective of Ciara and then the perspective of Oliver. I liked it but didn't love it.

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