FRIDAY, NOVember 6 SCHEDULE
trolley tour: History, Mystery & Wisteria Historic District Overview
Fri 10am-12pm
Pickup at The Alida
Tickets $75 here
Let your “Hostess City” unlock and reveal some surprises and long kept secrets.
Registration opens at noon and stays open through the afternoon. Arriving Saturday? Check-in reopens Saturday morning. This is for the festival not the hotel room check-in.
FESTIVAL CHECK-IN + REGISTRATION
Fri 12-5pm
The Alida lobby
Franklin Room, The Alida
Fri 1-1:50pm
FICTION / burying the past: the land remembers
Cities, small towns, and rural landscapes can carry the past long after people try to bury it. These authors explore how old power, generational debts, and hidden histories continue to shape the present.
Franklin Room, The Alida
Fri 2-2:50pm
TRUE CRIME / Buried Secrets: How the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Was Finally Caught
For more than a decade, the Gilgo Beach murders remained one of Long Island’s most haunting mysteries. Then, a renewed investigation and evolving forensic technology changed everything.
FICTION / THE RULES OF REINVENTION
Fri 3-3:50pm
Franklin Room, The Alida
A retreat, a castle, an off-grid home: places where nobody knows who you used to be. When your history doesn't follow you, how much of yourself can you leave behind—and what might you allow yourself to become?
TRUE CRIME / THE ART OF FBI INTERROGATION
Fri 4-4:50pm
Franklin Room, The Alida
Retired FBI agent Scott Duffey will pull back the curtain and take you through the basic steps of preparing for and entering THE FBI INTERVIEW ROOM. Learn what it takes to prepare and execute a plan to get someone to confess to a crime.
Happy Hour-priced drinks and food available for purchase. Mingle with our bestselling authors, get your books signed and enjoy Happy Hour cocktails, non-alcoholic drinks and hors d’oeuvres. It’s a chance to unwind and talk thrillers, mysteries, and crime with those who really know.
FICTION + TRUE CRIME
WHODUNIT HAPPY HOUR & BOOK SIGNING
Fri 5pm
Rocks on the Roof Bar,
Hotel Orielle, No ticket required
TRUE CRIME / WINE & CRIME CRIME
Harper’s Gallery, The Alida
Tickets $125 includes dinner & drinks
Fri 7-9pm
Hosted by the one-and-only CSI, cold case specialist, author and podcast host, Sheryl “Mac” McCollum, you will be immersed in a simulated homicide war room. Sheryl will brief you on the evidence from a current cold case. Test your deductive skills and work with our forensic and law enforcement experts to try to solve a real crime, over dinner and drinks.