August 7-9, 2026
Bute Noir
Isle of Bute, Scotland
Special Guests: Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Ann Cleeves, Mick Herron, Denise Mina, Mark Billingham, Chris Brookmyre, and Stuart MacBride
August 9-24, 2026
Edinburgh Book Festival
Edinburgh, Scotland
Schedule TBA
August 20-23, 2026
Killer Nashville
Nashville, TN
Special Guests: Reed Farrel Coleman, Heather Graham, Noelle Nhi,
SEPTEMBER 2026
September 3-7, 2026
Bouchercon
Calgary, CA
Lifetime Achievement Guest Of Honor: Louise Penny; Cross-Border Guest Of
Honor: Kathy Reichs; International Guest Of Honor: Abir Mukherjee; American
Guest Of Honor: Mark Greaney; Canadian Guest Of Honor: Jennifer Hillier; Cozy
Guest Of Honor: Vicki Delany; Kids’ Guest Of Honor: Kevin Sands
September 4-6, 2026
St. Hilda's Mystery
& Crime Conference
Oxford, England
Guest of Honor: Andrew Taylor; Other speakers
include: Jo Callaghan; Ajay Chowdhury; Abigail Dean; Vaseem Khan; Remi Kone;
Simon Mason; Ayo Onatade; Hallie Rubenhold; Laura Shepherd-Robinson; Sarah
Vaughan; Martyn Waites
September 12-13, 2026
Crime by the Sea
Special guests: Sophie Hannah, Jess Kidd, Ian Moore, Louise Doughty, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julie Wassmer, and Lucy Strange.
September 12-26,
2026
International Agatha
Christie Festival
Torquay, UK
Special Guests: Luy Foley, Martin Edwards, Ben Miller, Robert Thorogood
and many more
September 18-20, 2025
Bloody Scotland
Stirling, Scotland
Special Guests: Richard
Osman, Gregg Hurwitz, Jane Harper, Tana French, S A Cosby, Lee Child, Abir
Mukherjee, Chris Brookmyre, and many more.
September 18-20, 2026
Creatures, Crimes, and
Creativity
Columbia, MD
Special Guests: SJ Rozan, Ken Bebelle & Julia Vee, K.T. Nguyen, Jen
Furlong
September 26, 2026
Coastal Crime
Southampton, UK
OCTOBER 2026
October 3, 2026
Chiltern
Kills
Gerrards Cross, UK
Special Guests: TBA
October 8-11, 2026
Ashland Mystery
Festival
Ashland, OR
Special Guests: TBA
October 15-18, 2026
Murder One
Dublin, Ireland
Special Guests TBA
October 16-18, 2026
Death
in the Dales
Sedburgh, UK
Martin Edwards, Anthony Johnston, Carrie da Silva, Roger Price, Nick Oldham,
Simon Dinsdale, Dolores Gordon Smith; Tom Mead, Victoria Dowd, Kate Ellis, Simon
Michael, Catherine Yaffe. David Beckler, Deborah Swift, Fiona Veitch Smith Priscilla
Masters, Matthew Booth
NOVEMBER 2026
November 6-8, 2026
New England Crime Bake
Special Guests: Joseph Finder, Lisa Gardner
November 11-14, 2026
Iceland Noir
Reykjavik, Iceland
Special Guests TBA
November 14, 2026
Men of Mystery
Long Beach, CA
Special Guests: TBA
November 20-21, 2026
BAD Sydney Crime Writers
Festival
Sydney, Australia
Special Guests: Megan Brown, Shankari Chandran, Sarah Foster, Cassie Hamer,
Dervla McTiernan, Michelle Prak
DECEMBER 2026
December 5, 2026
The Wolf Pack’s Black Orchid Weekend
New York City, NY
JANUARY 2027
January 30-21, 2027
Stockport
Noir
Stockport, UK
Special Guests TBA
FEBRUARY 2027
February 4-7, 2027
Savannah Book Festival
Savannah, GA
Special guests TBA
February 6, 2027
Murder in the Magic City & Murder on the Menu
Birmingham, AL
Special guests: Ellen Byron, Robert Bailey
MARCH 2027
March 7, 2027
Southwest Festival Reading Festival
Fort Myers, FL
Crime Fiction Author Guests: TBA
March
13, 2027
Suffolk Mystery
Authors Festival
Suffolk, VA
Special Guests: TBA
March
13-14, 2027
Tucson
Festival of Books
Tucson, AZ
Special Guests: TBA
March 18-21, 2027
Sleuthfest
St. Petersburg, FL
Special Guests: Lisa Scottoline, Riley
Sager, Jennifer Hillier, Jess Lourey, Noelle W. Ihli, and Stacy Willingham
APRIL 2027
April 1-4, 2027
Left Coast Crime
Denver, Colorado
Special Guests: Craig Johnson, Lee Golberg, Gigi Pandian, Wendall Thomas,
April
2-4, 2027
Quais Polar
Lyon, France
Special Guests: TBA
April 9-11, 2027
BookCon in NYC
New York, NY
April
9-11, 2027
Malice Domestic
Bethesda, MD
Special Guests: Leslie Budewitz, Mary
Kay Andrews, Mia P. Manansala, Jeffrey Marks, Janet Powell
April
15-18, 2027
Hamptons
Whodunnit
East Hampton Village, NY
Special Guests: TBA
April
17-18, 2027
Los Angeles Times
Festival of the Book
Los Angeles, CA
Special Guests TBA
April 27-May 1, 2027
Thrillerfest
New York, NY
Special Guests: Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Jewell, Mark Greaney, Isabella
Maldonado, Emily Bestler, Oline Cogdill, and Jerri Williams
MAY 2027
May 15, 2027
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg, MD
Special Guests: TBA
May 30, 2027
Capital
Crime
London, UK
Special Guests TBA
JUNE 2027
June
5, 2027
Short Con (crime fiction short
stories)
Alexandria, VA
Special guests: TBA
JULY 2027
July 22-25, 2027
Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Harrogate, UK
Special Guests TBA
SEPTEMBER 2027
September 24-26, 2027
CrimeCon
Orlando, FL
A conference for fans of true crime
Special guests TBA
June
24-28, 2027
ALA Conference
New Orleans, LA
