SUNDAY SCHEDULE, NOV 8

Join our bestselling mystery authors and true crime experts for a lively brunch. Relax, swap stories, ask your burning questions, and raise one final bloody glass to a weekend of murder, mystery, and mayhem.

Fiction + true crime / whodunit brunch

Rooftop, The Alida
Tickets $75 

Sun 10am-11pm

Sun 11-11:50am

Gilbert Room, The Alida

true crime PANEL / TO be announced

To be announced.

FICTION / Don't Look Away

Franklin Room, The Alida

Sun 11-11:50am

Featuring Guest of Honor Jessica Knoll, Shanora Williams and Wanda Morris. What happens when the truth becomes impossible to ignore? These authors write characters who see something they can no longer unsee — and must decide what they're willing to risk once they know the truth.

Franklin Room, The Alida

Sun 12-12:50pm

fiction / writing by heart

Some worlds aren't researched; they're carried. Brendan Slocumb and Henry Wise on turning a life inside a concert hall or a small Virginia town into fiction only they could write.

Gilbert Room, The Alida

Sun 12-12:50pm

true crime / can you spot a liar?

A 25-year U.S. Secret Service veteran, Brad Beeler, author of TELL ME EVERYTHING, has conducted more criminal polygraphs than anyone in the agency’s history. Think you’d know if someone was lying to you? Brad puts the audience to the test with live examples and breaks down the biggest myths about deception and body language.

Franklin Room, The Alida
Tickets $25

Sun 1-2:30pm

FICTION WORKSHOP / THE STORY STARTS NOW

Pick your genre, then take a character, a verb, an adjective and an adverb and write a complete short story on the spot. New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, with more than 200 novels to her name, coaches you along the way. A few past participants have gone on to publish the stories they started here!

walking tour / Savannah Ghosts, Legends & True Crimes

Meet in front of The Alida
Tour
tickets $50

Sun 1-3pm

Come walk Savannah's historic streets...if you dare!