Award-winning author Vinnie Hansen lives in Santa Cruz, California, the iconic seaside town providing an atmospheric setting for her writing, whether as the actual town in her Carol Sabala series, or thinly disguised as Playa Maria in her suspense novels.

Her latest suspense novel, Crime Writer, is “Replete with heart-stopping moments, action, and unexpected realizations.”–D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review. Listen to the first chapter on the Toe Tag podcast or watch an interview with Vinnie on YouTube.

Next up, a reprint of Vinnie’s story “I Want To Be Your Boyfriend” will be included in the inaugural issue of the Short Mystery Fiction Society Mystery Magazine, launching digitally on 9/30 (pre-order here), with a print edition to follow.

All of Vinnie’s books can be purchased locally at Bookshop Santa Cruz or ordered wherever fine books are sold.

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“Hansen presents her readers with a tight, fast-paced mystery…. In Sabala, Hansen has created a likable sleuth whose many problems readers may readily identify with….”
—The Bloomsbury Review