Crime Wave at VABook!

Saturday, March 27
at the Omni Hotel

10 a.m.

Heartfelt Murder: Crime Wave Panel

Mary Alice Gunter (Murder in the Poe Room), Tim Myers (Murder Checks Inn), Beverly Van Hook (Juliet's Ghost), Joan Hess (Muletrain to Maggody), Trisha R. Thomas (Roadrunner) and Marcia Talley (Sing It to Her Bones). Moderated by Willetta Heising.
Lewis & Clark Room

The Big Thrill: Crime Wave Panel

Thrillers T. Jefferson Parker (California Girl), James W. Huston (Thrillers), Keith D. Cummings (Opening Bell), Libby Fischer Hellman (A Picture of Guilt), Joe Fontana (Crescent Eagle). Moderated by Andy Straka.
Ashlawn-Highland Room

12 p.m.

Crime Wave Luncheon David Baldacci

Lunch amid Crime Wave festivities with author David Baldacci (Split Second). SOLD OUT
Salon A

2 p.m.

Pros and Former Pros (Detectives and Private Eyes)

With Lawrence Block (Small Town), S.J. Rozan (Winter and Night), William Kent Krueger (Boundary Waters), Ed Dee (The Con Man's Daughter), Robert Randisi (many books) and Richard Helms (Wet Debt). Moderated byTom Nolan.
West Ballroom

Time and Place as Characters in the Crime

With authors Qiu Xiaolong (Death of a Red Heroine), Cara Black (Murder in the Bastille), Rebecca Pawel (Law of Return), Ace Atkins (Crossroads Blues) and Dennis Burges (Graves Gate). Moderated by Willetta Heising
Lewis and Clark Room

4 p.m.

Beyond the Call: Sleuths Otherwise Employed

Lawrence Block (Small Town), John Billheimer (Drybone Hollow), Cornelius Lehane (Beware the Solitary Drinker), Robin Hathaway (Scarecrow), Ace Atkins (Crossroad Blues). Moderated by Carol Fitzgerald.
James Madison Room

Multiple Personalities: Crime Wave Panel

Writers who have different pen names or series characters. With Warren Murphy (Trace series), Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins (Bombshell), Marthayn Pelegrimas writing as "Christine Matthews" (On the Strength of Wings), Robert Randisi (Blood on the Arch) , T. Jefferson Parker (California Girl). Moderated by Andy Straka.
Salon A

8 p.m. (at the Charlottesville Ice Park)

Murder and Mayhem: Writers Talk about their Work

T. Jefferson Parker (California Girl), Lawrence Block (Small Town), Max Allan Collins (The Road to Perdition), Joan Hess (Muletrain to Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery), and S.J. Rozan (Winter and Night). Moderated by Wall Street Journal reviewer Tom Nolan.
Charlottesville Ice Park

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