The Trap

Lucy is on a lonely road in the middle of the night looking for her sister, Nicki, who disappeared a year earlier. She is hoping that the driver who took her sister may also stop to pick up her - a dangerous enterprise that she has undertaken on many other nights without success. Then a car stops and the driver offers her a lift.  Is this the man who took her sister?

In The Trap, Irish writer Catherine Ryan Howard has written a gripping thriller about the disappearance of a number of girls in the local area. The disappearance of only one girl received publicity from the media - probably because she had recently turned seventeen. Lucy is not the only person who feels that the police investigation has not been thorough. Then a girl is hit by a car and tells ambulance officers that there are other girls in the house she escaped from. How many girls have disappeared?

Catherine Ryan Howard has written a gripping thriller about the search for the truth from the perspective of the victim's families, the Family Liaison Officer and a member of the Missing Person Unit, and the perpetrator of the crime. 

The novel is the June 2025 book in Dervla McTiernan's The bookclub that isn't a book club.