Burn After Reading is the thriller you won’t be able to put down this year

This is going to be the best thriller of the year

They're more fast-paced than some of the contemporary novels we read throughout the year and never make us cringe like some rom-coms do.

There have been some incredible thrillers released in recent years, but there's one release we're extremely excited about.

Catherine Ryan Howard has become a staple in the Irish bookish world with her addictive and gripping novels.

Her novel Burn After Reading is at the very top of our reading list and you need to add it to yours, too.

What happens in Burn After Reading?

This tense, claustrophobic, and gripping thriller follows a ghostwriter who is tasked with capturing the memoirs of a celebrity widely suspected of murder.

'The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their burning home, he was, tragically, too late - but hailed a hero. Until it emerged that Kate was dead long before the fire began.

'Suspicion has stalked him ever since. After all, there's no smoke without fire.

'A year on, he's signed a book deal. He wants to tell his side of the story, to prove his own innocence in print. He just needs someone to help him write it.

'Emily has never ghostwritten anything before, but she knows what it’s like to live with a guilty secret. And she's about to learn that there are some stories that should never be told...'

Catherine Ryan Howard is a master at what she does and never fails with this specific genre.