The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

Today I’m sharing my review for The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard again to celebrate paperback publication day in the UK. Thank you to Corvus Books for a copy of the hardback last year.

Synopsis:

I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man.
Now I am the woman who is going to catch him…

You’ve just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago.

Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page his rage grows. Because Jim was – is – the Nothing Man.

The more Jim reads, the more he realizes how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won’t give up until she finds him. He has no choice but to stop her first…

My thoughts:

This is the first book I’ve read by Catherine Ryan Howard, and I’m looking forward to reading more. I was gripped by the first few chapters – what an interesting story idea. Slowly we find out more and more about The Nothing Man and his awful crimes, whilst he finds out what Eve knows and where to find her by reading her book.

The tension built, the pages turned, the list of things to do were ignored. I thoroughly enjoyed the storytelling and the story. Apologies for being vague, but this is a no spoilers review.

A five star read for me.

Author Bio:

CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1982. Her debut thriller, DISTRESS SIGNALS (2016), was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller, and was shortlisted for both the Irish Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger. Her second thriller, THE LIAR’S GIRL (2018) was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. She currently lives in Dublin, where she divides her time between the desk and the sofa.