Catherine Ryan Howard on her new book and her dreams of living in East Cork

Catherine Ryan Howard has a string of bestselling crime novels to her name, and the pandemic-inspired ‘56 Days’ is about to get a streaming adaption. She talks to Aoife Barry about her latest thriller – and her dreams of owning a home in East Cork
Catherine Ryan Howard on her new book and her dreams of living in East Cork

Catherine Ryan Howard at The Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin. Picture: Bríd O’Donovan

“I think especially over the last couple of years, I’ve really reasserted my stance: that the only thing I can do, the only thing I’ve control over, is what I write,” says Cork crime and thriller writer Catherine Ryan Howard, as we chat over a cappuccino in a Dublin hotel bar. 

“I need to keep writing the kind of books that I want to read. And so even if everything goes to pot, at least you can say ‘I wrote the book I wanted’. But it’s difficult sometimes to maintain that ideal.”

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