Tucson Festival of Books

Getting Away with Murder?


How do regular people go down such dark roads? In this session, authors Kaira Rouda and Marisa Walz will discuss how they create such disturbing characters. (Unfortunately, Alissa Lee will not be able to take part in this session as originally planned.)


Panelists
Kaira Rouda

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....

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Marisa Walz

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....

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Books:
We Were Never Friends
A Novel
Kaira Rouda
Mystery / Thrillers
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2026
ISBN 9781464244995
288 pages

Good Intentions
A Novel
Marisa Walz
Mystery / Thrillers
St. Martin's Publishing Group
February 2026
ISBN 9781250397409
336 pages