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Conference for mystery, thriller, and suspense fiction writers

SleuthFest provides writers at any point in their publishing journey with techniques to improve their craft, information on publishing, marketing, and the business of writing, along with insight from best-selling authors, industry professionals, and forensics experts.

We also give authors networking opportunities that are an invaluable component of any writer’s toolkit.

SleuthFest helps attendees achieve their publishing goals.

September 26-29, 2024

Hilton Bayfront

St. Petersburg, Florida

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Guests of Honor

Lisa Unger is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of twenty-one novels. With books published in thirty-three languages and millions of copies sold worldwide, she is regarded as a master of suspense.

Unger’s critically acclaimed novels have been featured on “Best Book” lists from the Today Show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, People, Amazon, Goodreads, L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, Sun Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times and many others. She has been nominated for, or won, numerous awards including the Strand Critics, Audie, Hammett, Macavity, ITW Thriller, and Goodreads Choice. In 2019, she received two Edgar Award nominations, an honor held by only a few authors, including Agatha Christie. Her short fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Mystery and Suspense, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Travel+Leisure. 

Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology and behavioral criminology in the graduate program at DeSales University, where she is Professor Emerita. She has appeared as an expert on more than 200 crime documentaries and was an executive producer on Murder House Flip and A&E’s Confession of a Serial killer: BTK. The author of more than 1,500 articles and 72 books, including The Serial Killer’s Apprentice, I Scream Man, and How to Catch a Killer, she is known for her expertise on extreme offenders. She has also published a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist, Annie Hunter, who consults on death investigations.

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