Cate Holahan

Cate Holahan is a USA Today Bestselling thriller/suspense author and screenwriter.

She has six standalone novels and is co-author of the #1 Audible bestselling series Young Rich Widows, its sequel Desperate Deadly Widows, and the planned third and fourth installments, purchased by Audible.

Her seventh solo book, The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold, will be published by Thomas & Mercer in September 2025.

Her novels have been translated into multiple languages and optioned for television. Her fifth novel, Her Three Lives, was a Good Morning America book club selection and her second book, The Widower's Wife, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2016. Her third novel, Lies She Told, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2017, as well as a Book of the Month Club Sept. 2017 selection.

She’s written two original movies for MarVista Entertainment which have aired on Fox’s Tubi: Deadly Estate (March 2023) and Midnight Hustle (August 2023). She has multiple scripts and a pilot being shopped by production companies, and BET Studios optioned The Widower’s Wife and is developing it for TV.

In a former life, she was a journalist and TV producer. She has written for BusinessWeek Magazine, New Jersey's The Record Newspaper, The Boston Globe, MSN Money and CNBC.

A bi-racial American writer of Jamaican and Irish descent, Cate is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, and The Authors Guild. She has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts ’23 and a BA from Princeton University.

She lives in Tenafly, NJ, with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs, and spends many a break in Jamaica, where she’s also a citizen.