PICK YOUR ADVENTURE!
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2026
Festival events will take place at The Alida, Savannah, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, and Hotel Orielle, an Autograph Collection Hotel.
All panels require a day or weekend panel pass.
Dinner events, Sunday Brunch, and the Workshops require a ticket, as indicated.
The Mock Crime Scene Forensic Challenge (signup required on Fri or Sat at the Alida lobby) and the Book Signings are free.
Whodunit & True Crime Happy Hours are open to the public with discounted drinks and food available for purchase.
Schedule subject to change.
WEEKEND PANEL PASS
$250
Best value! Includes all three days of fiction and true crime panels, headlined by former NYC Death Investigator Barbara Butcher and Guests of Honor Jessica Knoll and Gregg Hurwitz.
FRIDAY DAY PANEL PASS
$75
Four afternoon panels exploring family secrets, the Gilgo Beach investigation, suspenseful storytelling and FBI interrogation—followed by the public Whodunit Happy Hour and author signing.
saturday day panel PASS
$125
Our biggest day of programming, featuring conversations with Guests of Honor Jessica Knoll and Gregg Hurwitz, the Luigi Mangione case, Barbara Butcher’s life as a New York City death investigator, bestselling fiction authors, headline-making cases and much more.
sunday day panel pass
$75
Choose between fiction and true crime conversations covering Jessica Knoll and the women who refuse to look away, the enduring mystery of the Alcatraz escape, stories rooted in real lives and places, and a live test of whether you can spot a liar.
Rebuild a face from a skull, test your eyewitness memory, or learn how interrogators get people talking! For writers, write a short story on the spot or hear how our debut authors went from manuscript to published book.
TRUE CRIME & FICTION WORKSHOPS
$25 EACH
SPECIAL EVENTS
Ticket includes dinner & drinks. Over a true Southern dinner, work on a real unsolved case presented by Sheryl McCollum, with a forensic expert seated at every table,.
WINE & CRIME
$125
TRIVIA NIGHT
$125
Ticket includes dinner & drinks. Go head-to-head with our authors in a night of mystery trivia and Southern pub fare, hosted by Brendan Slocumb.
SUNDAY BRUNCH
$75
Mimosas and a breakfast buffet (included in your ticket) with the authors and true crime experts. One last chance to ask your questions!