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Robert Dugoni (Keynote)

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. He is also the author of the Keera Duggan legal thriller series, the Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and the literary novels The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell and The World Played Chess, as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. His books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

His next book, A KILLING ON THE HILL, a historical true crime thriller, will be published by Thomas & Mercer on April 9, 2024. Visit his website at www.robertdugoni.com

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Lee Goldberg (Keynote)

Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award, two-time Shamus Award nominee, and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 novels. His newest novel, Calico, takes his masterful storytelling in a new direction.  Author James Reasoner writes that Calico succeeds in combining a “Southern California police procedural and an epic Western historical saga.”  Goldberg’s forthcoming novel, Dream Town, is due in early 2024. This will be his 5th riveting Eve Ronin thriller.   He also has written and/or produced many television mystery series including Monk and Diagnosis Murder.

Lian Dolan

Lian Dolan is a writer, producer, and podcaster.  She has published four novels,  with her latest, The Marriage Sabbatical, due out next spring.  Her novel, Lost and Found in Paris (2022), was a Los Angeles Times bestseller that incorporated mystery, romance, and redemption.  In addition to writing novels, Dolan has authored regular columns for Pasadena Magazine, O Magazine, and Working Mother.  She is the creator, producer, and host of Satellite Sisters, originally a syndicated radio show beginning in 2000, featuring Dolan and her four sisters.  Since 2009, it has been a top-rated podcast.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s fourth book, A Great Country, will be released in spring, 2024.  The novel describes the lives of the Shah family, whose immigrant parents were committed to achieving the American dream.  When a son is arrested by the police, the family’s perception of success is shaken to its foundation.  This book has been named “most anticipated” read on Zibby Owen’s Most Anticipated Books list.  Gowda’s first novel, Secret Daughter, is in feature film production with Amazon Studios.  Her novels are New York Times and international bestsellers and have been translated into thirty languages.

Sarah James

Sarah James’s debut novel, The Woman with Two Shadows, garnered excellent reviews for her WWII-era story incorporating romance, and suspense. The book presents a character attempting to uncover what happened to her twin sister, who disappeared from a Tennessee military base. James followed up with Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen, a Booklist starred review, which applauds the “relentlessly twisty-turny plot” that captures “Hollywood’s golden era . . . with movie stars, scandal, and the allure of fame.”  This is a must- read for lovers of whodunit and suspense novels.

Autumn Krause

Autumn Krause is a young adult novelist living in Fullerton, CA.  She notes that she revised her first book, A Dress for the Wicked, and wrote her second book, Before the Devil Knows You’re Here at two local coffee houses.  Krause’s second novel received three starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and Shelf Awareness. Her morbid imagination worried her parents and they urged her to stop writing stories in which everyone dies at the end.  Krause is unlikely to stop; she is a “gothic romantic” who loves imagining “stories full of macabre magic.”

Andrea Lankford

Andrea Lankford, an accomplished outdoorswoman, is a former National Park Service ranger. She served in parks including Yosemite and Grand Canyon, where she performed as a firefighter, a law enforcement officer, and a wilderness medicine specialist. She became a nurse after her NPS career. Lankford has written five nonfiction books. National Geographic calls Ranger Confidential a “Top Ten Book about U. S. Parks.”  Her most recent book, a New York Times bestseller, Trail of the Lost, has been called by Publisher’s Weekly “a gripping real-life mystery” about searches to bring lost hikers home.

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