Crime Fiction at the LA Times Festival of Books
The full slate of programming at next month’s LA Times Festival of Books is pretty rockin’, but let’s focus in on the crime fiction panels, of which there are a number of excellent ones.
Two of those panels will be moderated by me. On Saturday at 1:30 PM in Room 147 at Dodd Hall (aka Mystery Alley) there’s “Mysteries: Black & White” with Denise Hamilton and Book Prize finalists Michael Koryta and Simon Lewis. On Sunday at 10:30 AM, also in Mystery Alley, the panel chairs will be occupied by Joe Gores, Tom Epperson and once again, Ms. Hamilton as we talk about “Cold Cases”. The rest of the crime fiction schedule is below:
10:30 AM
Mystery: A Dark & Stormy Night
Moderator: Lee Goldberg
Jan Burke
Stephen J. Cannell
Robert Dugoni
Craig Johnson
12:00 PM **
Mary & Carol Higgins Clark in Conversation with Amy Alkon**
3:00 PM
Mystery: Cops & Crooks in California
Moderator: Robert Crais
T. Jefferson Parker
Joseph Wambaugh
Don Winslow
12:00 PM
Mystery: Crime & Punishment
Moderator: Dick Adler
Paul Levine
Lisa Scottoline
Stuart Woods
1:30 PM
Mystery: Guns & Gams
Moderator: Mary McNamara
Cara Black
Harley Jane Kozak
Lisa Lutz
3:00 PM
Mystery: Gun in Cheek
Moderator: Rob Roberge
Thomas Perry
Mark Haskell Smith
TBD
Also, James Ellroy will have a solo appearance (intro’ed by Patt Morrison) on Sunday at 12:30. And the Mystery Bookstore will host its annual pre-Festival party on Friday the 24th from 5 to 9 PM, just before the Book Prize ceremony gets underway at the LA Times Building at 8 PM.