Tucson Festival of Books

The Art of Unease


All good mystery writers know how to build tension from first page to last, and today we will learn how three of them, Tiffany Crum, Lori Rader-Day and Zoe B. Wallbrook, pace the buildup for maximum effect.


Panelists
Tiffany Crum

Tiffany Crum grew up on a dairy farm just down the road from a maximum-security prison. A longtime Californian, she worked a variety of jobs in the film industry before earning her MFA in creative writing....

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Lori Rader-Day

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award winning author of the just released, "Wreck Your Heart." Other popular novels in her repertoire are "The Death of Us," "Death at Greenway," "The Lucky One," and "Under a Dark Sky....

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Zoe Wallbrook

Zoe B. Wallbrook is a writer of witty, charming and occasionally snarky mysteries with characters you want to root for. Her novel "History Lessons" was selected for the prestigious mentoring program Pitch Wars....

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Books:
Wreck Your Heart
A Novel
Lori Rader-Day
Mystery / Thrillers
St. Martin's Publishing Group
January 2026
ISBN 9781250393739
352 pages
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This Story Might Save Your Life
A Novel
Tiffany Crum
Mystery / Thrillers
Flatiron Books
March 2026
ISBN 9781250395238
368 pages
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History Lessons
Zoe Wallbrook
Mystery / Thrillers
Soho Press Inc
July 2025
ISBN 9781641295529
384 pages
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