by Catherine Ryan Howard | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog Article
A CRIME WRITER IS BORN In 1981 my parents purchased a JVC HR-3660, one of the first VHS-based VCRs commercially available in Ireland. It was top-loading, weighed more than thirty pounds and had a row of gleaming silver levers that reminded my mother of piano...
by Catherine Ryan Howard | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog Article
Stranger than Fiction One morning last summer, seemingly everyone I’d ever met in my life got in touch to tell me the same thing: the plot I’d made up for my debut thriller had just happened in real life. I’d written about an Irishman who discovers that his girlfriend...
by Catherine Ryan Howard | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog Article
Ten Debut Mysteries That Hit It Out of the Park As a reader, there is nothing better than discovering authors who knock your socks off with their debut. You’ve found a new writer to love and, if this is his or her first effort, things surely are only going to...
