Burn After Reading

Catherine Ryan Howard

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Bantam (Transworld)
10 May 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense

A ghostwriter is tasked with capturing the memoirs of a celebrity widely suspected of murder; now she's locked in an interview room with a killer and he's ready to confess...

The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their burning home, he was, tragically, too late - but hailed a hero. Until it emerged that Kate was dead long before the fire began.

Suspicion has stalked him ever since. After all, there's no smoke without fire.

A year on, he's signed a book deal. He wants to tell his side of the story, to prove his own innocence in print. He just needs someone to help him write it.

Emily has never ghostwritten anything before, but she knows what it's like to live with a guilty secret. And she's about to learn that there are some stories that should never be told...

By: Catherine Ryan Howard
Imprint: Bantam (Transworld)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 633g
ISBN: 9781787636620
ISBN 10: 1787636623
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 10 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Catherine Ryan Howard is the author of eight novels including the no. 1 bestsellers The Nothing Man, 56 Days and The Trap. Her work has been shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Crime Writers Association New Blood and Steel Daggers, and Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year multiple times. The screen adaptation of her lockdown thriller, 56 Days, is currently in production and will debut on Amazon Prime Video this year. She lives in Dublin.

Reviews for Burn After Reading

Claustrophobic and menacing, Burn After Reading is a taut thriller that makes breathless reading as Ryan Howard masterfully takes us from the picture postcard Sanctuary into an ever tightening knot of scorching hot lies. From the first page to the last satisfying twist, don't pick this book up if you have an early start the next morning! * Sam Blake * Praise for Catherine Ryan Howard: * - * Topical, twisty, and with a real heart stopper of a moment halfway in that'll make you turn the lights back on. * Gillian McAllister * 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. * Abigail Dean, author of GIRL A * Catherine Ryan Howard is the Queen of the Unguessable Twist, * C. L. Taylor *