bestselling author of emotional suspense
Discover a world of hidden truths and twisted deceptions in the bestselling novels of Victoria Helen Stone! Read the critically acclaimed Jane Doe, a Goodreads Award Semifinalist for Best Mystery/Thriller, or start with the #1 Kindle bestseller, Evelyn, After.
“Stone renders the obsessions and weaknesses of her characters with scorching insight.”
—Christopher Rice, New York Times bestselling author
Half Past takes place in two main locations: a small town in rural Iowa and the coast of Big Sur. I didn’t have to do any research on the first location. My family is from a tiny farming community in southern Minnesota. I only had to look up a couple of details to get that part right. My biggest disappointment was discovering that Red Owl grocery stores had gone out of business. Our local Red Owl played a big part in my childhood summers. I can still smell the maple doughnuts, and my … [Read More...] about Solitude in Big Sur: Research for Half Past
Victoria Helen Stone, formerly writing as USA Today bestselling novelist Victoria Dahl, was born and raised in the flattest parts of the Midwest. Now that she’s escaped the plains of her youth, she writes dark suspense from an upstairs office high in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. She enjoys summer trail hikes with her family almost as much as she enjoys staying inside during the winter. Since leaving the lighter side of fiction, she has written the critically acclaimed, bestselling novels Evelyn, After; Half Past; and Jane Doe.
