Kate White Books in Order
Browse Kate White books in order, from Bailey Weggins mysteries to standalone thrillers and career guides, with summaries and where to start.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do
by Kate White
1995
White lays out nine strategies for women who want to stop playing it safe at work. Part self-test and part career guide, it focuses on smarter risks, stronger ideas, and asking for more.
9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want
by Kate White
1998
This guide helps women get clear about what they truly want, then go after it with more nerve and focus. White breaks the process into nine practical steps, blending personal stories with straightforward advice.
Papier Mache
by Kate White
2000
This illustrated craft guide walks readers through pulp-making, layering, paper-making, and painted or collaged finishes. Step by step projects build from simple pieces to more detailed decorative objects.
If Looks Could Kill
by Kate White
2002
Bailey Weggins, a true-crime writer at Gloss, finds her boss's nanny dead from a poisoned truffle. The case pulls her into Manhattan media politics, wealthy secrets, and a murder that may have been meant for someone else.
A Body to Die For
by Kate White
2003
Needing a break, Bailey heads to a luxe spa in rural Massachusetts and finds a corpse wrapped like a mummy in a treatment room. Her getaway turns into a murder case filled with shady guests, nervous staff, and one tempting detective.
'Til Death Do Us Part
by Kate White
2004
When two bridesmaids die in freak accidents, Bailey heads to her former college roommate's Connecticut estate to see whether a perfect wedding world is hiding a killer. The answer turns personal, and deadly, very quickly.
Over Her Dead Body
by Kate White
2005
Fired from Gloss and newly hired at celebrity weekly Buzz, Bailey barely settles in before finding her tyrannical boss dying at the office. The suspect list is huge, and one of Bailey's closest friends is near the top.
How to Set His Thighs on Fire
by Kate White
2006
Part dating guide and part sex-and-confidence pep talk, this book offers 86 brisk lessons on love, men, work, and pleasure. White mixes Cosmopolitan-style candor with practical suggestions women can actually use.
Lethally Blond
by Kate White
2007
Bailey investigates when a minor actor disappears from the set of the hit TV show Morgue. What begins as a favor to an old flame pulls her into Manhattan's glossy entertainment world, where missing-person questions quickly turn dangerous.
You On Top
by Kate White
2007
This lively guide mixes career advice, dating wisdom, and sex tips into 86 short lessons on having more of what you want. White draws on magazine-life anecdotes and expert insight to make confidence feel practical.
Hush
by Kate White
2010
Lake Warren is already reeling from a brutal custody fight when she discovers Dr. Keaton murdered after a one-night stand. Suddenly she is running from suspicion, danger, and forces far more threatening than the police.
The Sixes
by Kate White
2011
Disgraced biographer Phoebe Hall escapes Manhattan to teach at a small Pennsylvania college, hoping for a quiet reset. Instead she steps into a coed's death, old campus secrets, and a sinister society called the Sixes.
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
by Kate White
2012
White shares blunt, practical advice on asking for money, chasing promotions, building a bigger career, and leading with confidence. It combines magazine-world lessons, interviews, and strategies women can use at any stage.
So Pretty it Hurts
by Kate White
2012
A weekend at a music mogul's snowbound upstate estate looks like a badly needed break for Bailey. Instead she lands in a tense closed-circle mystery, surrounded by glamorous guests, hidden resentments, and danger that keeps closing in.
Eyes on You
by Kate White
2014
TV host Robin Trainer is back on the air and celebrating a successful book when threatening notes begin to appear. The harassment grows steadily more frightening, and Robin realizes the enemy is someone already in her life.
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook
by Kate White
2015
Edited by White, this collection serves up more than 100 recipes plus mystery lore from crime writers across the genre. It is equal parts cookbook, literary curiosity, and gift book for mystery fans.
The Wrong Man
by Kate White
2015
Interior designer Kit Finn takes a rare romantic risk with a stranger in the Florida Keys, then finds a different man at his New York apartment. The mix-up drops her into a deeper plot that threatens her business and her life.
Even if it Kills Her
by Kate White
2017
Sixteen years after Jillian Lowe's family was murdered, DNA evidence blows up the old case and Bailey agrees to help. Their return to Jillian's hometown uncovers buried family secrets and puts both women in real danger.
The Secrets You Keep
by Kate White
2017
After a devastating car accident, self-help author Bryn Harper is trying to heal when her husband's behavior turns secretive and disturbing. A murdered caterer and Bryn's smoke-filled nightmares push her toward a truth that could save her life.
The Gutsy Girl Handbook
by Kate White
2018
White revisits her gutsy-girl ideas for a newer workplace, focusing on confidence, negotiation, smart risks, and being noticed for the right reasons. The advice is practical, direct, and aimed at women in every stage of their careers.
Such a Perfect Wife
by Kate White
2019
When Shannon Blaine vanishes during a morning jog near Lake George, Bailey heads north to cover the story. An anonymous tip and a grisly discovery turn a missing-person case into something far darker.
Have You Seen Me?
by Kate White
2020
Ally Linden walks into her old Manhattan office and learns she hasn't worked there in five years, with no memory of the last two days. Her search for those missing hours may expose buried trauma and immediate danger.
The Fiancée
by Kate White
2021
At her in-laws' annual gathering on a Pennsylvania estate, Summer grows suspicious of Hannah, the new fiancée in the family. When a relative dies and Hannah keeps charming everyone else, Summer has to prove her fears are not paranoia.
The Second Husband
by Kate White
2022
Emma has rebuilt her life with a new husband on the Connecticut shore after her first husband's murder. When detectives reopen the old case, her carefully restored sense of safety starts to crack.
Between Two Strangers
by Kate White
2023
Struggling artist Skyler Moore is stunned to inherit a fortune from a man she barely remembers meeting once. As his family turns suspicious and threats mount, she has to uncover why he chose her before the past catches up.
The Last Time She Saw Him
by Kate White
2024
Kiki Reed watches her ex-fiancé Jamie die from a gunshot after a party, but she cannot accept the suicide ruling. As she digs into his last days, grief gives way to a far more disturbing mystery.
I Came Back for You
by Kate White
2026
Ten years after Bree Winter's daughter was believed murdered by a serial killer, his deathbed confession says he did not kill Melanie. Bree returns to the upstate town where everything shattered, and the truth proves even more devastating.
Where should I start?
If you want the Bailey Weggins series from the beginning: If Looks Could Kill → A Body to Die For → 'Til Death Do Us Part
If you want Bailey's later, glossier cases: Over Her Dead Body → Lethally Blond → So Pretty It Hurts → Even If It Kills Her
If you want standalone psychological suspense: Hush → The Sixes → Have You Seen Me? → The Fiancée
If you want career advice instead of fiction: Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do → I Shouldn't Be Telling You This → The Gutsy Girl Handbook
Author bio
Kate White was born in Glens Falls, New York, and grew up in that part of upstate New York. She has said she wanted to be a writer from childhood, and by twelve she was deep into Nancy Drew. Around the same time, her mother gave her a typewriter, which made the whole idea feel a lot more real.
She kept following that pull at Union College in Schenectady, where she studied English and graduated in 1972. While still a student, she won Glamour's Top Ten College Women contest, appeared on the magazine's cover, and landed her first job there as an editorial assistant.
One break led straight into a magazine career.
White worked her way up by writing, editing, and taking on bigger jobs when they came. Over the years she led Child, Working Woman, McCall's, and Redbook, then spent fourteen years as editor in chief of Cosmopolitan. In 2012 she left magazines to focus full time on suspense fiction, though she had already been writing novels on the side for years.
That double life makes a lot of sense when you read her books.
Her first Bailey Weggins mystery, If Looks Could Kill, introduced a sharp true crime writer in the Manhattan magazine world and became a breakout success. It was a Kelly Ripa book club pick, landed on bestseller lists, and helped launch a series that eventually grew to eight books, including A Body to Die For and Such a Perfect Wife. Those novels show what White does especially well: smart women, fast plots, sharp social observation, and a strong feel for how power works in offices, friendships, and polished public worlds.
Her standalones push that same instinct into darker territory. In books like Hush, The Sixes, Have You Seen Me?, The Fiancée, and The Last Time She Saw Him, she likes to begin with a woman whose life seems mostly stable, then pull one thread until the whole fabric starts to come apart. Readers come for the twists, but they also stay for the details, the houses, parties, jobs, family tensions, and those small moments when someone says just a little too much, or not quite enough.
She also wrote bestselling career books, including Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, and The Gutsy Girl Handbook. Those books feel connected to the fiction. They are direct, practical, and interested in what happens when women stop waiting to be chosen and start making moves of their own.
A lot of White's work circles the same ideas: ambition, reinvention, female friendship, work, desire, and the danger of surfaces that look polished from the outside. Her settings can be glossy, but she uses them to show stress, envy, secrets, and the cost of getting what you want. She also knows how to keep things moving.
These days she writes and speaks full time. She has said she is an avid traveler, and she spends winters in Uruguay with her husband. That mix of curiosity, restlessness, and practical drive still feels present on the page, which may be why her thrillers feel so grounded even when everything in them starts to go wrong.
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