How do regular people go down such dark roads? In this session, authors Alissa Lee, Kaira Rouda and Marisa Walz will discuss how they create such disturbing characters.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Alissa Lee is a writer and lawyer. she grew up in New Jersey and lives in the San Francisco Bay area. "With Friends Like These," a heady mix of dark academia, spiraling stakes and tangled loyalties, is her first novel....

Kaira Rouda is the USA Today and No. 1 Amazon bestselling author of "We Were Never Friends." Her novels have been selected by Library Reads, Amazon and Apple books editors as Best Books of the Month, Most Anticipated by Zibby Media, and Strand magazine’s and Suspense magazine’s Best Book of the Year....

Marisa Walz is a Federal Reserve executive who also writes novels about people behaving badly. A lifelong writer and an alum of The Writers' Loft in Chicago, Walz's authorly aspirations started at an early age with her painstkingly detailed childhood diaries....


