The Widower's Wife

"Praise for The Widower's Wife: ""One of those rare thrillers that really will keep you reading all night."" --Kirkus starred review ""Holahan once again creates a compelling heroine who can tap into bottomless reserves of strength when push comes to shove. A fast read for domestic-suspense fans."" --Booklist ""In this chilling cat-and-mouse tale... Holahan keeps the action going."" --Publishers Weekly ""Ryan Monahan is so intriguing that readers will be anxious to read about his further adventures."" --RT Book Reviews ""Impressive, exceptional, original, The Widower's Wife is a compelling page-turner of a novel from beginning to end--and clearly established author Cate Holahan as an especially skilled novelist of the first order."" --Midwest Book Review ""A terrific mystery."" --Book Reporter ""Cate Holahan did a great job of weaving together a tale of how far desperate people will go... I can't wait to read her next book."" --San Francisco Book Review ""The contrasting perspectives give the reader an all-encompassing knowledge of the situation, which tends to keep the pages turning... The Widower's Wife is a great tale for late summer beach reading."" --Noir Journal ""The suspense never ends... The characters are finely drawn, the mystery of what happened a good one... This is a book sure to make my Top Reads of 2016 List."" --Kings River Life ""This book is one of the year's better thrillers...certainly one of the most original!"" --Popular Culture Association ""Ingenious and engrossing. The Widower's Wife is a twisting, Gone Girl-esque thriller full of lies and secrets that kept me delightfully off balance right to the end. Cate Holahan is a star on the rise."" --Brad Parks, Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Award-winning author of The Fraud Praise for Cate Holahan's Dark Turns: ""Journalist Holahan's debut will appeal to fans of precocious teen conspiracies like Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars series, as well as to fans of grown-up, plucky-heroine-must-fight-for-herself thrillers."" --Booklist ""Holahan nails the preppy ambience, the cliques, the conspicuous consumption, and the coltish beauties such as golden girl Aubrey Byrne... [in] this Black Swan pas de deux with Tartt's The Secret History."" --Publishers Weekly ""A simply riveting read from beginning to end, Dark Turns aptly demonstrates the impressive storytelling talents of author Cate Holahan."" --Midwest Book Review ""A skillfully developed whodunit."" --Popular Culture Association ""In this twisting danse macabre of jealousy, obsession, vanity, and revenge, Cate Holahan gives more than a superb debut performance. Dark Turns provides a master class in murder."" --Jan Coffey, USA Today bestselling author of Trust Me Once ""Cate Holahan's debut novel, Dark Turns, reads like a mash-up of Black Swan and a particularly juicy episode of Gossip Girl."" --Charles Dubow, IndieBound bestselling author of Indiscretion"