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Follow Her Down in The Nerd Daily!

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Follow Her Down is featured in “Seven Hot Domestic Suspense Books for Summer” by Elka Ray in The Nerd Daily!

A shot of the website The Nerd Daily features a picture of Elka Ray and her book Friend Indeed.

Elka says, “When Elise’s wildly wealthy former lover is found murdered, Kyle’s convinced his death is linked to their sister’s. Not only is Elise a suspect in her ex’s killing, but she finds herself forced to ask questions she’d rather keep avoiding. Like Elise, I never knew where things were heading. If you like strong and complex female leads and tales of unsettling power dynamics, FOLLOW HER DOWN is great summer-cabin-reading.”

Follow Her Down is out on June 4 and you can pre-order here! And be sure to check out Elka Ray’s debut suspense, Friend Indeed.

Follow Her Down out June 4!

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Follow Her Down cover, book by Victoria Helen Stone. A woman sinks in green-blue water, her arms twined above her head. The lower half of the cover is semi-opaque white. the top is green-blue water with turbulence and bubbles.

My latest suspense has a cover and a pre-order link, and June 4 is inching closer!

Reviewers, FOLLOW HER DOWN is now available for request on NetGalley. I’m thrilled to be working with both @thrillerbookloverspromotions and @kayepublicity this time around.

This book has it all: a 25-year-old murder, a complicated & cussing heroine, older brother’s best friend 😏, Bigfoot, deadly conspiracies, dysfunctional families, a creepy billionaire, and a tiny-home resort in the mountains. Hey, summer will be here before you know it! (She says while looking out her window at a snow squall.)

Pre-order Follow Her Down!

“The murder of Elise Rockwood’s sister shattered her family. Their mother’s anxiety kept her housebound. Elise’s paranoid brother, Kyle, saw conspiracies everywhere. Elise numbed her grief in an aimless lifestyle that left her emotionally broken. All of them victims. A local boy eventually confessed, but the damage was already done.

Years later, Elise is reinventing herself. She’s bought a mountain lodge to be close to home again and to find stability. Not even an email from her ex tempts her into revisiting the past. But Kyle won’t let it go. He still believes there’s more to their sister’s murder—and the confession—than meets the eye. When Elise’s ex is found dead in the same forest where her sister went missing decades before, Elise is finally willing to listen.

The traumas of the past are reemerging. So is the truth. Elise’s greatest fear now is who will survive it…”

Pre-order Follow Her Down now:   
Kindle | Paperback | Audio 

Follow my writing process!

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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-Faced Liar. Follow along with #VHStone2025 on Instagram! Or get links to the videos on Threads! Hope to see you there.

 
 
 
 
 
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Publishers Weekly Loves The Last One Home!

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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. 

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!