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. Now published by misterio press, 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 October 22, 2024, from Level Best Books! Buy on Amazon. Read the coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

And so far, 2025 is off to a fabulous start with a flash fiction piece accepted for publication at Guilty Crime Story Magazine in February and the release of Gone Fishin’, the eighth anthology from the Guppies Chapter of Sisters in Crime, also in February. The anthology contains Vinnie’s story, “Downward Dog.”

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