LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony award-winning author of twelve crime novels. His short fiction has been included in the Best American Mystery Stories anthologies and Booklist has called him "a writer who has always belonged in the upper echelon of American crime fiction." Haywood... Read More →

Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including "Gangster Nation," "Gangsterland," a 2015 finalist for the Hammett Prize, and "The House of Secrets," which he co-authored with Brad Meltzer. He is also the co-host of the popular podcast Literary... Read More →

Locke is the author of "Bluebird, Bluebird," a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in Mystery/Thriller; "Pleasantville," which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; "Black Water Rising," which was nominated... Read More →

Pochoda is the author of "Visitation Street," which was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, Amazon Best Book of 2013, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times... Read More →