Victoria Helen Stone

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Victoria Helen Stone, author of the runaway hit Jane Doe, writes critically acclaimed novels of dark intrigue and emotional suspense. Her work includes Follow Her Down, At the Quiet Edge, The Last One Home, Problem Child, Half Past, The Hook, and the chart-toppers False Step and Evelyn, After. Victoria writes in her home office high in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, far from her origins in the flattest plains of Minnesota, Texas, and Oklahoma. She enjoys gorgeous summer trail hikes in the mountains almost as much as she enjoys staying inside by the fire during winter. Victoria is passionate about dessert, true crime, and her terror of mosquitoes, which have targeted her in a diabolical conspiracy to hunt her down no matter the season.

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Coastal Noir: Santa Cruz as a Character

I was twenty-two the first time I saw the ocean. To my utter shock, I discovered that the Pacific was ice cold beneath the blazing sun and bobbing with blobs of tar leaking from oil pumps off the Santa Barbara shore. Still, it was undeniably beautiful, both in cold reality…

Victoria Helen StoneJune 3, 2025