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Kate Anslinger

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in Manchester, NH, The United States

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Mystery, Crime, Suspense

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Kate is the author of the Grace McKenna Mystery series and The Town Series. She’s also penned several standalone novels and co-authored a nonfiction book or two. In addition to her life as a novelist, Kate is a ghostwriter, book coach, and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Her debut novel Saving Jason, touches upon the struggles of PTSD, a topic that is near and dear to her heart. Kate lives on the North Shore of Boston with her husband, two daughters and golden retriever pup.

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Average rating: 4.2 · 9,430 ratings · 1,041 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Gift (McKenna Mystery #1) 4.25 avg rating — 2,412 ratings — published 2017 — 6 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
	Buried Secrets (McKenna Mystery #2) 4.21 avg rating — 1,345 ratings — published 2019 — 5 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 Things We Carry (The Town, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 1,187 ratings — published 2023 — 9 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
	Bad Things (McKenna Mystery #6) 4.24 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Chasing Ghosts (McKenna Mystery #5) 4.45 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Never Tell (McKenna Mystery #3) 4.39 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Nowhere Safe: A Psychological Thriller 3.99 avg rating — 455 ratings — 2 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 Secrets We Keep (The Town Book 2) 4.11 avg rating — 395 ratings — 2 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
	Family Photos (McKenna Mystery #4) 4.42 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Dark Things: A Psychological Thriller 3.97 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2025 — 4 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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Borrowed Lies (McKenna Mystery Series)

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“People, in general, are clueless about how an airplane works. They don’t realize that it is four forces pulled together to create motion. Lift, gravity, thrust, and drag. That’s it in a nutshell. A whole bunch of physics and aerodynamics.”
― Kate Anslinger, Nowhere Safe: A Psychological Thriller

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“but today I feel a swell of panic in this small space. Maybe that’s why I’m doing this to myself. Forcing the pain like those teenage girls who slice their forearms with razor blades. Sometimes it hurts so much on the inside we need the physical harm to make some sense of it, to ease the trauma that is trapped so intensely beneath the surface.”
― Kate Anslinger, Nowhere Safe: A Psychological Thriller

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Kate’s Quotes

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison