Victoria is the award-winning author of the Smart Woman’s Mystery series and has been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. Her novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s Book of the Year. Her novel Murder Most Cold won the Grand Puzzly award. Victoria was awarded the Gothic Fiction prize for her short fiction.

Her historical crime novel, Death in the Aviary, will be published in September 2025, and is the first book in her new series, The Blood Chronicles.

Victoria is also the author of Adapting Agatha, discussing various adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. She has appeared at many literary festivals such as Malice Domestic in Washington DC (the Agathas); the Jaipur Literary festival; Bodies in the Archive at the Gladstone Library; The International Agatha Christie Festival; and many more.

She is the Vice Chair of the CWA and head of the London Crime Writers’ Association. She was also a criminal defence barrister for many years on the London circuit appearing at the Old Bailey.