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 will be re-released October 22nd from Level Best Books! Email Vinnie for an Advance Review Copy. The 2024 year is proving to be a banner year for her short stories as well. She’s up to 7 for the year! The latest is “Dire Wolf” in the Friend of the Devil anthology. If you have any Deadheads on your shopping list and/or readers of crime fiction, this could be just the ticket. Buy on Amazon.

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