Daphne Woolsoncroft Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Daphne Woolsoncroft is an American published author.

She is a native of Los Angeles and is known for being a thriller author as well as a podcaster. She is the host and producer of ‘Going West’, a popular true crime podcast. Her episodes boast 150,000 to 200,000 listeners and the podcast enjoys on average over two million downloads a month.

She has always been pulled to the shadowy corners of human nature. Daphne grew up in LA, and discovered that her creative instincts were enhanced even more in the misty forests and rainy streets of Oregon. The podcaster lived there for several years and would set her debut thriller in Portland with its gloomy atmosphere.

Going West was co-created along with Daphne’s husband, Heath Merryman. Six years after its creation it was acquired by the Unwell Network. She loves to write about or research cases in the true crime genre and when she is not busy doing that she can be found making her way to various gloomy locations or catching the latest horror film in theaters. She also likes to sit on the couch along with her English Bulldog Dewey and read a book, which is typically a modern horror or a literary classic.

Night Watcher is a 2025 book by Daphne Woolsoncroft. If you have been looking for something modern to enjoy and you like something that is fictional and unique with a hint of thriller drama that keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next, this is the book for you.

Main character Nola Strate is a late night call in radio host living and working in Portland, Oregon. It’s a pretty cool gig and it means that she gets to hear from all kinds of people and listen to their supernatural stories, which never gets old.

Nola gets to hear stories about haunted buildings and cryptic creature sightings and get paid to do it. It hasn’t been a problem so far and she’s really liked hearing people’s stories– whether she believes them or not is another story.

One evening that is wet and foggy, a caller ends up describing a strange scene. It ends up making Nola recall getting away from a serial killer in the years prior. Now she is starting to become aware that he has returned so that he can complete what he started all those years ago. The past isn’t over. Not by a long shot.

Nola feels a rush of fear wash over her when she realized that once again she is being watched. It was years ago, but somehow the serial killer has returned and has his sights set on her once more. She was just a child when she had the encounter with the killer but has since grown up. These days she does whatever she can to try and forget the night that she had with ‘The Hiding Man’.

She’s done her best to leave it behind her in every way that she can while also protecting herself. She put up security cameras outside of her home in Oregon and did not speak to other people about what she had been through to keep it from coming up continually and to also keep people from looking at her a certain way, with that hint of sympathy in their eyes. By keeping it to herself, she doesn’t have to deal with any of that.

All in all, she thought that she had done a good job of moving on. She had hoped that the whole thing would never come up again, but serial killers rarely quit of their own volition. She grew up and hosted Night Watch, the same radio show that her father used to run. Coincidences have now caused her to think that she is being stalked, and a caller featured on Night Watch goes through an incident in real time with an intruder in their home. Once they describe them, Nola is certain that ‘The Hiding Man’ has come back.

Not only that, but she knows deep down that he is going to come after her. It’s only a matter of time before the killer tries to make a move. The only question is whether she is going to be ready.

More people are getting hurt and Nola decides to go to the police, only to be disappointed when they don’t take her concerns seriously. On top of that, the evidence is somehow pointing to her father, the last person she thought would be a suspect. Can she figure out who the killer is before it’s too late, or is The Hiding Man already five steps ahead of the ‘Night Watcher’? Read this thriller to find out!

The Season of Sinking is a 2026 book written by Daphne Woolsoncroft. Loved the first book from this author or have a special place on your bookshelf for great thrillers? Check this story out!

When a woman’s past starts to come back into her mind more and more as she goes back to her hometown, she can’t get past the feeling that the locals are hiding some type of secret– and it has to do with the recent death of her mother.

Imogen Bly is stunned when she gets the news that her mother has suddenly passed away. She decides to depart from her apartment in Seattle immediately and goes back to Lake Blair, the Washington town that she grew up in.

Joining her will be her twin sister, Amelia. They arrive with the intent of packing up their mother’s home, but before too long odd things start occurring. It only serves to remind Imogen of old feelings of dread she had about their hometown, things that she had nearly forgotten about.

It all makes Imogen start to wonder about how her mother really died as she starts to recall fragments of a traumatic childhood event. She gets the help of her former next door neighbor Rory to help her find out– without realizing that he may have secrets of his own.

When past family tragedies of Imogen’s own make her question what really happened to a young woman who went missing last year, she starts to realize that there’s a reason for her unease. Can she figure out what’s going on or would it be best to get out of town? Read The Season of Sinking by Daphne Woolsoncroft to find out!