Author

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. Ann Rule has called Scott "a star writer in the crowded field of true crime." 

She resides 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, with her twin sister, Cordelia, in Carmel with her artist grandmother and writer and photographer grandfather, both of whom influenced her creative side. Her latest project is an in-depth biography of the late true crime author Ann Rule, known as the Queen of True Crime, whom Scott got to know during the last few years of Ann's life.

Books By Cathy

AWARDS

  • Top 10 Best True Crime Books, True Crime Zine reader's poll, 2012
  • ForeWord magazine's 2013 Book of the Year Awards, True Crime (finalist)
  • ForeWord magazine's silver award for 2013 Book of the Year in True Crime
  • Nominated to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, 2014
  • ForeWord magazine's 2014 Book of the Year Awards, True Crime (finalist)

ARITICLES