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Kathleen Kent

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Born

Meadville, PA, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Crime, Historical Fiction

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July 2008

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Kathleen Kent is a New York Times bestselling author and an Edgar Award Nominee for her contemporary crime trilogy, The Dime, The Burn and The Pledge. Ms. Kent is also the author of three award-winning historical novels, The Heretic’s Daughter, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts. Her newest novel, BLACK WOLF, an international spy thriller, was published February 2023 and has received glowing reviews in both the US and the UK. She has written short stories and essays for D Magazine, Texas Monthly and LitHub, and has been published in the crime anthology Dallas Noir. In March 2020 she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for her contribution to Texas literature.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 48,774 ratings · 6,172 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Heretic's Daughter 3.79 avg rating — 36,179 ratings — published 2008 — 14 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 Wolves of Andover 3.56 avg rating — 4,406 ratings — published 2010 — 26 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 Dime (Betty Rhyzyk, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 3,174 ratings — published 2017 — 13 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 Outcasts 3.52 avg rating — 1,844 ratings — published 2013 — 14 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 Burn (Detective Betty #2) 3.95 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 2020 — 11 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
	Black Wolf 3.95 avg rating — 1,038 ratings — published 2023 — 10 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 Pledge 4.01 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years by Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author), Kathleen Kent (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Kasey Lansdale (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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
	Dallas Noir (Akashic Noir) by David Hale Smith (editor), Kathleen Kent (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ben Fountain (Contributor), James Hime (Contributor), Harry Hunsicker (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Matt Bondurant (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Merritt Tierce (Contributor), Daniel J. Hale (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), more… 3.35 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2013 — 7 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 Outcasts: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Life is not what you have or what you can keep. It is what you can bear to lose.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

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“There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you." - Martha Carrier to her daughter, Sarah Carrier”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

tags: death, parental-love, remembrance

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“Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quite defiance. It is a natural thing for a female to hold secrets within her breast until the time is ripe to release them. Does it not follow the way in which her body is formed? A woman is made with that dark and mysterious recess that can grow a child safely until the child is ready to come out onto the birthing bed. And like birthing, secrets present themselves in many ways. some slip easily into the world, others must be torn out, if the body is unwilling.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

tags: friendship, secrets, trust, women

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October BoTM Nominations: Witches Theme First Poll

Top 5 Books move onto final round

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah Harkness

16 votes, 28.1%

Practical Magic

by Alice Hoffman

9 votes, 15.8%

The Witches of New York

by Ami McKay

7 votes, 12.3%

Uprooted

by Naomi Novik

6 votes, 10.5%

The Heretic's Daughter

by Kathleen Kent

5 votes, 8.8%

The Witchfinder's Sister

by Beth Underdown

4 votes, 7.0%

Resurrectionists

by Kim Wilkins

3 votes, 5.3%

The Witch of Painted Sorrows

by M.J. Rose

3 votes, 5.3%

Equal Rites

by Terry Pratchett

2 votes, 3.5%

Daughters of the Witching Hill

by Mary Sharratt

2 votes, 3.5%

57 total votes

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“Dr. Tom had said that Texas was the only place he had ever found that, when it killed you, it didn't forget about you.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Outcasts

tags: fiction-novel, texas, texas-rangers, western

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“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”
― Jimmy Breslin

tags: new-york-city

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“It's hard to imagine, seeing how crowded the sky looks tonight, how far away one star is from another. Like, people, really. We can appear to be standing right next to each other, and yet in our minds, we can be thousands of miles away, lost to the outer reaches. But we're all together in the same black soup, which makes us all related somehow.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Outcasts

tags: texas, texas-rangers, westerns

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“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: death, feminism, men, murder, widowhood, women, womens-rights

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