Victoria Thompson

Victoria Thompson (born Victoria Ellen Straface) was an American author of historical mysteries. After writing about twenty historical romances from the mid-1980s, she began the Gaslight Mystery series in 1999, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and following a midwife and a police detective.

Six of the Gaslight books were nominated for the Agatha Award, and the series was also an Edgar nominee. Her Counterfeit Lady series was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award.

She received a Career Achievement Award in mystery writing from RT Magazine in 2012, earned an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, and taught in that program for over twenty years. She died in August 2024.