Victoria Jenkins

Victoria Jenkins is a Welsh author who has made a name for herself writing the highly popular Detective King and Lane series of novels. The first novel in the series was “The Girls In The Water” that Jenkins first published in 2017, to much critical acclaim and popularity among crime fiction fans. The series of novels features Detective Constable Chloe Lane and Detective Inspector Alex King, who are the lead investigative characters that solve some mysterious murders in their hometown. Even though Jenkins’ writing has only come to the fore in the recent past, she has always been a writer. Right from her childhood, she would write stories and went on to win her first literary prize aged only ten. The novel that she co-wrote with her father was titles “The Giraffe who Sneezed”. The book won the school writing competition and won the young author an award of two novels that she was to pick from the collection of books at the school fair. One of the titles that she chose was Vivien Alcock’s “A Kind of Thief” whose male lead character was Jenkins’ first crush. When she is not writing, Jenkins loves to play scrabble, run marathons, and decorate cakes. She currently lives in South Wales with her husband, from where she teaches English during the day, and writes her excellent crime fiction during the night and on weekends.