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Cate Holahan

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Born

in New York, New York, The United States

Website

http://www.cateholahan.com

Genre

Mystery, Thriller, Suspense

Influences

gillian flynn, patricia highsmith, karin slaughter, herman koch

Member Since

March 2013

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Cate Holahan is a screenwriter and USA Today Bestselling author of psychological suspense books. Her sixth novel, The Darkness of Others, was published in 2022. She has had books named to Kirkus' Best Books of the Year and Book of the Month Club's official selections. Notable works include: One Little Secret, Lies She Told, The Widower's Wife.

Her film, Deadly Estate, was on Fox's Tubi in March, and her upcoming film, Dancers on the Darkside, will be coming out this year.

An award-winning journalist and former television producer, she has written for BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, and The Record newspaper. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters, and dogs.

She has an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch and graduated fro ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 47,499 ratings · 5,197 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lies She Told 3.65 avg rating — 13,391 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Rich Widows (The Widows, #1) by Kimberly Belle (Goodreads Author), Layne Fargo (Goodreads Author), Cate Holahan (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg rating — 12,983 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widower's Wife 3.78 avg rating — 8,853 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Little Secret 3.55 avg rating — 6,789 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desperate Deadly Widows (The Widows #2) by Kimberly Belle (Goodreads Author), Vanessa Lillie (Goodreads Author), Layne Fargo (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 2,593 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Three Lives 3.31 avg rating — 1,446 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Turns 3.32 avg rating — 745 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkness of Others 3.46 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold 3.15 avg rating — 47 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The BIG "Little" Books Giveaway!

We're celebrating the launch of friend and fellow author, Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets by giving away some books by some fantastic thriller authors who all have a "little" in common. You can learn more about this raffle rules on my Instagram and then enter here. In these videos, I tell you all about the seven fantastic books you can win. Read more of this blog post »

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“Sex is never about getting off. It's a physical form of communication, stripped of the linguistic armor inside of which people cloak their true feelings. A person cannot have a sarcastic orgasm.”
― Cate Holahan, Lies She Told

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