Award-winning author Vinnie Hansen lives in Santa Cruz, California, the iconic seaside town serving as the backdrop for most of her Carol Sabala mystery series. You can follow Carol’s final adventure in book seven, Black Beans & Venom.

Vinnie’s latest book, One Gun, was a finalist for Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award for Best Contemporary Novel and was re-released at the end of 2024 from Level Best Books! Buy on Amazon. Read the coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Vinnie recently returned from Left Coast Crime 2025 in Denver, the best conference yet! Her latest news is the publication of her short story “Justice Served” at Tough, a great, paying blogazine, which you can read for free!

All of Vinnie’s books can be purchased locally at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

“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