Victoria Helen Stone

bestselling author of emotional suspense

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Up Close Interview with The Big Thrill!

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by Angela Channell

“In THE LAST ONE HOME, the latest title by Jane Doe author Victoria Helen Stone, nobody can be trusted. Least of all your family.

Lies and the choosing of whose truth to believe has driven a wedge between mother and daughter Lauren and Donna Abrams, Stone’s steely protagonists. It’s through their voices that we alternately hear of how Lauren came to want nothing to do with Donna, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren’s father to prison for murder years ago…

Victoria sits in front of a bookshelf, smiling toward window

The novel is psychologically complex due to these two competing voices, which Stone attributes to wanting to convey the real-life complexity of secrets and truth. “I really wanted to examine the truth as a three-dimensional object that can’t be entirely seen by one set of eyes,” she says. “Lauren views her mother through the lens of the difficult and twisted life they lived together. That’s all she can see. But Donna’s narrative offers an utterly different story from an utterly different woman than ‘Lauren’s mom.’”

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The Last One Home will be out March 30!

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Book Discussion with Linda Keir

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Party with Victoria Helen Stone and Linda Keir!

Last week I had the opportunity to celebrate the release of THE THREE MRS. WRIGHTS, the brand new thriller from the writing duo Linda Keir! Linda Joffe Hull and Keir Graff have teamed up for their third fantastic book together, and we had an absolute blast discussing writing style, sociopaths, bigamy, and the sexy bits of thrillers! 

You can watch the whole party here:

Books mentioned in the discussion:

The Three Mrs. Wrights by Linda Keir

The Swing of Things by Linda Keir

Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone

Problem Child by Victoria Helen Stone

How to Start a Love Affair with Audiobooks

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I was an audiobook failure. Not a failure at writing the books, mind you, but at listening to them. I could never manage to get through more than a chapter or two, and then my interest would fizzle out and I wouldn’t go back. I’d try and fail every time. But I desperately wanted audiobooks in my ear while I was cleaning or driving or walking! So I trained my brain by starting small.

Want to learn how to go from audiobook failure to audiobook addict? Read more at CrimeReads! Recommendations included!

Problem Child Is Out Now!

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Problem Child is in stores now! You can get the second Jane Doe Thriller in paperback, audiobook, and on Kindle!

I’m so excited about this book, and I hope you enjoy taking another wild trip with Jane as much as I did. Publishers Weekly gave Problem Child a STARRED REVIEW, and said “Outstanding… Readers will find vicarious joy in Jane’s petty vengeances and unabashed meanness to anyone who tries to take advantage of her. Stone turns some very dark material into an upbeat tale.”

Upbeat vengeance! How’s that for a treat?

She’s cold, calculating, and can deceive with a smile. Jane Doe is back in the Amazon Charts bestselling series—and this time she’s met her match. Try out the second Jane Doe thriller today!

Huge News! A TV Deal for Jane Doe!

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I’m extremely excited to announce that I have struck a deal for the television rights to Jane Doe! Sony Pictures Television will be producing, along with executive producers Seth Gordon (The Good Doctor, Atypical, Sneaky Pete) & Julia Gunn of Exhibit A Entertainment! I can even add that it is currently “in development,” thanks to the hard work of Exhibit A and my wonderful agents Amy Moore-Benson and Conrad Sun of Meridian Artists!

This has been an amazingly exciting development in the Jane Doe series… which is why I completely forgot to post it here for a few months. 😉 Stay tuned for more progress! And don’t forget that your new bestie, Jane is back. The second thriller in the Jane Doe series, Problem Child, will be out March 24th!

Are Suspense and Romance So Different?

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I recently wrote an essay for the wonderful CrimeReads site about my experience moving from writing romance to writing suspense. It’s been such a treat to stretch my wings and hone new skills in an unfamiliar genre. But it wasn’t quite as unfamiliar as you’d think.

“Love stories and scary stories are opposites for a reason: They’re flip sides of the same coin. They each tap into the most basic human drives: to survive and to mate.”

I don’t have a good story about the first inappropriate book I read at too young an age. There were so many books around my house from so many genres, I couldn’t even tell you what kind of inappropriate it might have been. It was probably a steamy historical romance, but it could just as easily have been a Stephen King novel or an intense Dean Koontz thriller clutched in my twelve-year-old hands at 1 AM on a school night. My mom loved reading both horror and romance, so I had plenty of access to both…

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