bestselling author of emotional suspense
Hi all! Over on Instagram, I’ve started a video diary from day ONE of plotting and writing my 2025 suspense. I haven’t pitched this story to my publisher yet, so it could all fall apart, but that’s part of the fun, right? The working title for now is Bald-Face Liar. Follow along with #VHStone2025 on Instagram! Or get links to the videos on Threads! Hope to see you there.
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One more day to enter! 100 copy giveaway on GoodReads! Only 40 copies are pictured here. Imagine HOW MANY MORE COPIES FOR THE GIVEAWAY! (It’s 60.)
One more day to enter to win a Kindle copy of my latest suspense, The Hook! Click here to enter: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/365290-the-hook?ref=giv_
Or PRE-ORDER NOW! And The Hook will be in your hands in all its scarlet glory on May 23!
The Publishers Weekly review of The Last One Home is in!
Stone gradually reveals her multifaceted characters’ secrets as the intricate, fast-paced plot builds to a surprising conclusion.
After Lauren Abrams, the protagonist of this unsettling psychological thriller from Stone (False Step), breaks up with her boyfriend in L.A., she returns home to Sacramento, Calif., where her 90-year-old paternal grandmother is in the hospital recovering from a stroke. When her grandmother offers to sell Lauren the family ranch outside the city, she accepts. While renovating the ranch house, Lauren receives a letter from serial killer Bobby Edward Kepnick regarding a murder for which her father, Michael, was imprisoned for 10 years decades ago. Kepnick’s confession to the murder led to Michael’s release. Lauren remains estranged from her mother, Donna, whose testimony helped convict her father. Flashbacks beginning in 1985 chart the fraught relationship between Donna and Michael. As Lauren digs deeper into her family’s history, she uncovers things that leave her questioning everything she thought she knew about her father’s family. Stone gradually reveals her multifaceted characters’ secrets as the intricate, fast-paced plot builds to a surprising conclusion. Fans of dark, twisted tales of dysfunctional families will be satisfied.
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!
Hi, everyone! Amazon is giving away 100 Kindle copies of Half Past on Goodreads!
Sign up before September 18 for a chance to win!
Good luck to all and I hope you enjoy the book!
Half Past will be out on September 19, 2017! Watch for blog posts here.