2025 Special Events and ticket information…
We are thrilled to announce Shari Lapena as our 3rd Guest of Honor for 2025!
Photo by Rachel Wainz
Shari Lapena
Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of the thrillers THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, AN UNWANTED GUEST, SOMEONE WE KNOW, THE END OF HER, NOT A HAPPY FAMILY, EVERYONE HERE IS LYING, and WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, which have all been New York Times and The Sunday Times (London) bestsellers. Her books have been sold in forty territories around the world.
Shari lives on a farm outside Toronto.
LUCY FOLEY
Lucy Foley studied English literature at Durham University and University College London and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She is the author of five novels including THE MIDNIGHT FEAST and THE GUEST LIST.
Lucy lives in London.
Tess Gerritsen
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction and in 1987, her first novel, CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT, was published. It was just the first of 32 suspense novels that she’s written over a 36-year writing career.
Tess’s 1996 medical thriller, HARVEST, marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list and her novels have hit bestseller lists ever since. Among her titles are GRAVITY, THE SURGEON, THE SPY COAST, and THE SUMMER GUESTS. Her books have been translated into 40 languages, and more than 40 million copies have been sold around the world.
She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for VANISH) and the Rita Award (for THE SURGEON). Time Magazine named THE SURGEON one of the best mystery/thrillers ever written. Her novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TNT television series “Rizzoli & Isles,” starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.
Tess lives in Maine.
CSI Sheryl “Mac” McCollum’s 25-year-old cold case has been solved!
The mysterious murder of Melissa Wolfenbarger was presented as a cold case at this year’s Wine & Crime event at Hamptons Whodunit. Sheryl “Mac” McCollum has worked tirelessly to keep the case in the public eye. A witness recently contacted her, the information was passed on to the police and an arrest was made.
For more information on this case, listen to the 100th Episode Special of “Mac’s” podcast, Zone 7. You too can help solve cold cases and bring justice to victims at last.
Sheryl “Mac” McCollum presenting at Hamptons Whodunit’s Wine & Crime 2024.
Last April, East Hampton Village was swarming with bestselling authors, investigators, prosecutors and former cops.
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In 1658, East Hampton Village was known for its witches.
Now, it is known for the thrills and chills of Hamptons Whodunit.
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