The Widower's Wife

Praise for The Widower's Wife: USA Today Bestseller ONE OF KIRKUS' BEST BOOKS OF 2016 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 twisty thriller is riveting. -Stop You're Killing Me 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