ABOUT DAPHNE
Daphne Woolsoncroft is a thriller author and podcaster drawn to the shadowy corners of human nature. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she found her creative pulse deepened by the mist-laced forests and rain-slicked streets of Oregon, where she lived for several years. Her debut thriller, Night Watcher—set in gloomy Portland—will be published by Hachette Books in July 2025.
Daphne is also the co-host of the acclaimed true crime podcast Going West, which she created with her husband, Heath Merryman, in 2019.
When she’s not chasing down stories of the strange and sinister, Daphne can be found sinking into films at the cinema or curled up on the couch of her California home with a good book -preferably a literary classic or terrifying modern horror- alongside her loyal English bulldog, Dewey.
On December 31, 2018, Daphne and Heath, one year into dating, launched Going West: True Crime from Heath’s homestate of Oregon. Inspired by Daphne’s aunt's disappearance, and Heath’s lifelong fascination with the subject, Going West began releasing weekly single-case episodes on solved and unsolved murders and vanishings based in the United States.
In August of 1984, Daphne’s aunt, Carol Woolsoncroft, went missing from Fort Myers, Florida after she told her parents that she wanted to escape her roommate, and the man she’d been dating for only a couple of months. He went on to murder other women, though Carol’s body has never been found, and he, nor anyone else, has ever been arrested for the crime. Daphne has had a lasting hope to get justice in her case, and it inspired the desire to tell other lesser known stories on her podcast.
In late 2021, Going West began releasing two episodes a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. They were acquired by the Unwell Network in January of 2025.
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WHAT’S NEXT
Daphne Woolsoncroft’s second novel, a thriller titled The Season of Sinking, based on a fictional lake outside of Seattle, Washington, is slated for release with Hachette Books in the summer of 2026.
She is currently writing her third novel.
