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Cathy Scott is a powerhouse in true crime, a bestselling author for the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, and an award-winning investigative journalist. She gained international recognition for her classic true-crime biographies, The Killing of Tupac Shakur and The Murder of Biggie Smalls, both of which became bestsellers, and Murder of a Mafia Daughter. Her latest book, First Lady of Murder, released in June 2026, is an in-depth biography of the late true-crime author Ann Rule, with whom she was friends for the last three years of her life. Ann called Cathy "a star writer in the crowded field of true crime."

Cathy lives in the historic mountain mining town of Julian in San Diego County and once lived in the artist and literary community of Carmel-by-the-Sea in Northern California. She also spent summers and holidays as a child in Carmel with her twin sister, Cordelia, and her artist grandmother and writer-and-photographer grandfather, both of whom influenced her creative side.