products: products.map(function (product) { Ryan Howard's acclaimed debut Distress Signals in 2016 marked her out as a writer destined for awards and bestseller lists alike. Pitting the current obsession with the true-crime genre against a more traditional psychological suspense is the genius at the heart of the novel. }); const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); if (! const priceIdFromUrl = getQueryStringValue('priceId'); const selectTab = { } }); google_widget_url:'https://member.independent.ie/google-login', window.dataLayer.push({ if (event.detail.object.hasOwnProperty('google_showcase_requested')) { return null; document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; const expiryTime = 2; Soon, Thulin traces the chestnuts to a tree on the farm that the brutal 1987 crime was committed on. if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { From time to time Howard interupts the Nothing Man book excerpts to show us Jims reactions to what he is reading. }); document.querySelectorAll('input[type="radio"][data-price_id]').forEach(function (price) { }); //if the item doesn't exist, return null The opening is so deceptively simple it takes a while to understand just how wily this book of two distinct stories (but one killer) really is. The Northman ending explained. badgeToUse = badge; vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= setSubscribeButtonColour(plan); } span_tag.style.backgroundColor = ""; } } !selectedPrice.badges && selectedPrice.badges !== Object(selectedPrice.badges)) { productClickSource = window.shopFrontHeaderSubscribe ? product.quantity = 1; The film was released through demand services along with a limited premier by Lionsgate. Howard can paint moving depictions of grief and survivor's guilt while terrifying readers and making them triple-check the locks on their doors. virtualPageViewData.eventData.user.wallType = 'none'; }); } selectedPrice = getBundleById(priceIdFromUrl); THE LIAR'S GIRL (2018) was shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. const purchasedProduct = { if (userHasLoggedIn === true) { product.quantity = 1; const getSubscriptionStatus = function (purchase) { el.querySelector('a[data-price_id]').style.display = 'inline-flex'; user: { } Pantone Metallics for a moment Make a Clean Break was disobedient, God said to him ". } } const selectedPriceRadioInput = node.querySelector('.subtitle2 input[type="radio"]'); Eighteen years ago, Jim terrorised the residents of Cork in five violent crimes which began with a vicious assault on a middle-aged woman and steadily escalated, culminating in the murder of Ross and Deirdre Black and their seven-year-old-daughter, Anna. }); }; label: 'login', Catherine Ryan Howard concludes her new genre-bending psychological thriller with the words: \u0026amp;quot;Finally, a disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. return null; This series of killing culminated in the murder of two parents and one child in their home with one survivor, Eve, who was also a child at the time. onboarding_article = 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/'; if (! vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; if (node.id === 'template-prices-login-button') { ? if (scripts[i].innerHTML.indexOf("var map") !== -1 && scripts[i].innerHTML.indexOf("L.map") !== -1 && ! template_prices: '

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The reader gets to watch him reading Eve's book even as his own story is unfurling for us. if (selectedPrice.delivery_days.length === 1 && selectedPrice.delivery_days.indexOf(6) > -1) { subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', By creating fictional fact and fictional fiction, she plays with the reader's expectations from the start to each of the ends. coupon_applied: price.coupon_applied, }); window.IMP = window.IMP || {}; const fireCheckoutEvent = function () { } } At the time, it was the fifth such attack in two years, but because the perpetrator always covered his tracks so well, garda were unable to get anything on him. Instead I found myself much more interested in Eve, the survivor and her journey to take some control of her life. 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