APRIL 2025
April 4-5, 2025
Southern Fried Crime Con
Eatonton, GA
Keynote Speaker: Wanda Morris
April 4-6, 2025
Quais Polar
Lyon, France
April 10-13, 2025
Hamptons Whodunnit
East Hampton Village, NY
Special Guests: Lisa Foley, Tess Gerritsen, and Shari Lapena
April 25-27, 2025
Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival
Aberystwyth, Wales
Special Guests: TBA
April 26, 2025
Skulduggery in Stowmarket
Suffolk, UK
April 26-27, 2025
Los Angeles Times Festival of the Book
Los Angeles, CA
Special Guests TBA
April 26-28, 2025
Malice Domestic
Bethesda, MD
Guest of Honor: Marcia Talley; Lifetime Achievement: Donna Andrews; Toastmaster: Gigi Pandian; Poirot Award: Lucy Worsley; Fan Guests of Honor: Les & Leslie Blatt
MAY 2025
May 3, 2025
Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookstore's I Scream of Mysteries
Mechanisburg, PA
Special Guests: Jeffrey Boarts, Dennis Boyle, Michael Stephen Daigle, Stephen Eoannou, A.E. Faulkner, Rosie Genova, Dori Hammer, Sheryl C.D. Ickes, Patrice McDonough, Tj O’Connor, Robert Walton
May 14-18, 2025
Sleuthfest
St. Petersburg, FL
Guest of Honor: Lisa Unger; Forensic Guest of Honor: Dr. Katherine Ramsland
May 15-18, 2025
Crimefest
Bristol, UK
Special guests: TBA
May 17, 2025
CrimeConn
Stamford, CT
Special Guests: Lauren Willig, Hallie Ephron, Reed Farrel Coleman, and more.
May 23-24, 2025
Montreal Mystery / Montréal Mystère
Montreal, Canada
Special Guests: Mikaël Archambault, Samantha M. Bailey, Will Dean, Charlène Desjardins, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Jennifer Hillier, Kate Hilton, and more
JUNE 2025
June 7, 2025
ShortCon
Alexandria, VA
Special Guests: SJ Rozan and Jeffrey Marks
June 13-15, 2025
Capital Crime
London, UK
Special Guests TBA
June 17-21, 2025
Thrillerfest
New York, NY
Special Guests: Thrillermasters, Janet Evanovich and John Grisham; Silver Bullet Award Recipient, James Patterson; Spotlight Guest, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and more
June 20-22, 2025
Lyme Crime
Lyme Regis, UK
Special Guests TBA
June 21, 2025
Bodies From the Library
London, England
Celebrating the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
JULY 2025
July 17-20, 2025
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Harrogate, UK
Chairman: Mick Herron
July 18-25, 2025
Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference
Corte Madera, CA
Faculty TBA
AUGUST 2025
August 7-10, 2025
Pulpfest
Pittsburgh, PA
Special Guests: John Bruening, Morgan Holmes, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, and Laurie Powers, with William Patrick Maynard and more
August 8-10, 2025
St. Hilda's Mystery & Crime Conference
Oxford, England
Guest of Honor: Val McDermid; Special Guests include Mick Herron, Stuart Neville, Ruth Ware, and more
August 9-24, 2025
Edinburgh Book Festival
Edinburgh, Scotland
Schedule TBA
August 21-24, 2025
Killer Nashville
Nashville, TN
Special Guests: Kemper Donovan, Sara Paretsky, Caitlin Rother
SEPTEMBER 2025
September 3-7, 2025
Bouchercon
Nashville, TN
Guests of Honor include Michael Connelly, Steph Cha, Craig Johnson, Charles Todd, Lisa Jewell, Jonathan Maberry, Alex Segura, Ali Karim
September 5-7, 2025
CrimeCon
Denver, CO
A conference for fans of true crime
Special guests TBA
September 6, 2025
Library of Congress Book Festival
Washington, DC
Schedule TBA
September 12-14, 2025
Bloody Scotland
Stirling, Scotland
Special Guests: TBA
September 13-21, 2025
International Agatha Christie Festival
Torquay, UK
Schedule: TBA
September 19-21, 2025
Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity
Columbia, MD
Special Guests: Tom Straw, Jody Lynn Nye, Ellen Crosby, Joe Brosnan, L. Marie Wood
OCTOBER 2025
October 16-19, 2025
Ashland Mystery Festival
Ashland, OR
Special Guests TBA
October 17-19, 2025
The BloodShed Crime Fiction Festival
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Special Guests TBA
October 23-26, 2025
NoirCon
Palm Springs, CA
Special Guests TBA
NOVEMBER 2025
November 7-9, 2025
New England Crime Bake
Dedham, MA
Guest of Honor: Lorie Rayder-Day
November 8, 2025
Men of Mystery
Long Beach, CA
Special Guests: TBA
