A New Home Hides Violence Inside Its Walls
A new home should mean safety, which is why hidden violence inside the walls makes such a strong thriller setup. The pleasure is creeping dread, domestic unease and the sense that memory and danger have been sealed together behind fresh paint.
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A New Home Hides Violence Inside Its Walls
A new home should mean safety, which is why hidden violence inside the walls makes such a strong thriller setup. The pleasure is creeping dread, domestic unease and the sense that memory and danger have been sealed together behind fresh paint.
- Book Synopsis
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If these walls could talk, they’d scream…
When Ellie moves into 1 Delaney Row, all she has to her name is the house, a small suitcase and the terrible secrets she’s desperate to keep. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets – and the people determined to keep them are watching her.
When a grim discovery prompts Ellie to find out more about the house’s past, she unwittingly puts herself on a deadly collision course not just with her new home’s history, but with her own as well…
Inspired by so-called ‘stigmatised properties’ – houses with dark and violent pasts – Buyer Beware is an intricate puzzle-box of a thriller with a pulsing emotional heart, from an author at the very top of her game.
Praise for Buyer Beware and Catherine Ryan Howard:
An intricately plotted, intelligent thriller – every page vibrates with emotion. A masterpiece. Catherine Ryan Howard has done it again – her best novel yet.
— Andrea Mara, bestselling author of IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU and ALL HER FAULTBuyer Beware but reader, delight: Catherine Ryan Howard has crafted another perfect thriller. The satisfyingly twisty narrative will keep you baffled and on the edge of your seat right up to the gripping end. Intensely relatable, astute and funny, Buyer Beware draws on our worst fears and vainest hopes to tell a story that's full of contemporary Irish resonance but effortlessly universal. A triumph from one of Ireland's very best writers.
— Jane Casey, bestselling author of THE SECRET ROOMOh boy! This book was a wild ride. We all want a roof over our heads but maybe not at 1 Delaney Row. Masterfully told in two timelines, the occupants of this home have so many skeletons in their closets, and some of them are screaming to get out. Beautifully written, brilliantly entertaining, and brutally terrifying, this is Ryan Howard's best book to date and that is saying something. Highly highly recommended.
— Liz Nugent, bestselling author of STRANGE SALLY DIAMONDNon-stop tension-filled suspense, clever, compulsive and surprising—Buyer Beware is a perfect read.
— Carmel Harrington, bestselling author of THE STOLEN CHILDCatherine never disappoints and Buyer Beware is no exception. It's the perfect blend of chilling discoveries, red herrings and shocking twists. The pay off was a chef's kiss.
— John Marrs, bestselling author of YOU KILLED ME FIRSTIn Buyer Beware, Catherine Ryan Howard proves once again that she is one of the most intelligent voices in contemporary suspense. A sharp, controlled and deeply unsettling novel which constructs its tension brick by brick. A hugely clever premise that evolves into a plotline that you'll never see coming. This is a brilliant, psychologically piercing thriller that I found impossible to put down.
— Amanda Cassidy, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL LIARSCreepy and compulsive, BUYER BEWARE is another bitingly smart thriller from the extremely talented Catherine Ryan Howard. Pick it up for the nightmarish premise, stay for the outstanding writing, sharp plotting and compelling characters. Just be careful you don’t suffer whiplash from the twists.
— Gilly Macmillan, author of THE NANNYBUYER BEWARE is another knockout from Catherine Ryan Howard, a true force in suspense.
— Jeneva Rose, #1 New York Times bestselling authorDarkly propulsive, and utterly unexpected, Catherine Ryan Howard's cast of wicked characters will keep you guessing to the very last disturbing page of Buyer Beware. As you meet each creepy, clever, twist, the ground shifts revealing that nobody is quite what they seem. A brilliant read from a master storyteller.
— Sam Blake, bestselling author of YOUR EVERY MOVEChilling and captivating. Catherine Ryan Howard is a master at taking a crime and cracking it open in ways you never see coming.
— Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author of TRUST HERIdeal for readers who:
- Are fans of Irish crime fiction and authors like Andrea Mara or Jane Casey.
- Love stories where an everyday situation becomes steadily more sinister.
- Appreciate a setting that's as mysterious as any of the book's characters.
- Enjoy multi-faceted thrillers that weave together danger, memory and a sense of place.
- About The Author
- Catherine Ryan Howard is the author of nine novels including the no. 1 bestsellers The Nothing Man, 56 Days, The Trap and Burn After Reading. Her work has been shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Crime Writers Association New Blood and Steel Daggers, and Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year multiple times. The screen adaptation of her lockdown thriller, 56 Days, is streaming now on Prime Video. She lives in Dublin.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780857508720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Press, (16 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 335
- Weight
- 434 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 152 x 27 mm
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