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

 

She has six standalone novels and is co-author of the #1 Audible bestselling series Young Rich Widows, which is coming to print April 2024. 

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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). 

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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. 

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The Widower’s Wife has been optioned by BET STUDIOS for development into a television show. Young Rich Widows is being shopped for TV by Jackie Levine at Audible. 

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Cate’s screen adaptation of Her Three Lives was optioned by CitizenSkull Productions for film development. Her screen adaptation of Lies She Told is being developed by director Michelle Bossy for film. 

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

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A bi-racial Jamaican and Irish American writer, Cate is a member of CrimeWritersof 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 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.

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