only started reading this authors books this year but since then have devoured all of them and loved every minute. Catherine Ryan Howard books are officially added to my must reads list. Addictive reads, well planned plots and perfectly paced make the books so difficult to put down. 56 days is another one of those books that hooked me from the start and I didn’t put it down until I had finished it. The book is set in the Covid pandemic but is not specifically about the virus.
Ciara and Oliver start seeing each other after meeting in a supermarket queue. They have both recently moved to Dublin following their work and both have an hidden past they wish to keep secret. A fortnight after meeting each other, Covid 19 lockdown is announced and rather than avoid each other Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara moves into Oliver’s luxury work apartment to suffer the lockdown together and allow the couples relationship to flourish.
35 days after the couple moved in together the garda detectives are called in by neighbours to investigate an awful smell in the building. The detectives discover a decomposing body in the bathroom of Oliver’s apartment and there is no sign of anyone else. The garda must find out if the dead person was murdered or if it was just a tragic accident?
The novel is told from the POV’s of Oliver or Ciara and drip feeds the reader with what they are hiding. What secrets can be that terrible that stop them telling each other. Both Oliver and Ciara are telling lies and it is getting more difficult to hide the truth from each other as they struggle to adopt their new identities.
This book is so well written, fast paced and so twisty that it is difficult to put down.
This book was so good, it kept me guessing the entire way through. So fast paced making me not want to put the book down. 10/10 recommend.
Ciara and Oliver start seeing each other after meeting in a supermarket queue. They have both recently moved to Dublin following their work and both have an hidden past they wish to keep secret. A fortnight after meeting each other, Covid 19 lockdown is announced and rather than avoid each other Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara moves into Oliver’s luxury work apartment to suffer the lockdown together and allow the couples relationship to flourish.
35 days after the couple moved in together the garda detectives are called in by neighbours to investigate an awful smell in the building. The detectives discover a decomposing body in the bathroom of Oliver’s apartment and there is no sign of anyone else. The garda must find out if the dead person was murdered or if it was just a tragic accident?
The novel is told from the POV’s of Oliver or Ciara and drip feeds the reader with what they are hiding. What secrets can be that terrible that stop them telling each other. Both Oliver and Ciara are telling lies and it is getting more difficult to hide the truth from each other as they struggle to adopt their new identities.
This book is so well written, fast paced and so twisty that it is difficult to put down.
This book was so good, it kept me guessing the entire way through. So fast paced making me not want to put the book down. 10/10 recommend.