Tucson Festival of Books

The Importance of Facts in Fiction


If authors don’t get their fact right, they will lose their readers’ trust. Let's find out how these mystery writers become experts in their topics ... and how their research sometimes leads to surprising results.


Panelists
Lynn Cahoon

Award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lynn Cahoon pens several cozy mystery series including The Tourist Trap Mysteries, The Kitchen Witch Mysteries, Survivors’ Book Club Mysteries, The Farm to Fork Mysteries, The Haunted Life Mysteries and The Cat Latimer Mysteries....

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Juliet Grames

Juliet Grames is the national and international bestselling author of "The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna" and "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia." Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Best American Mystery & Suspense, Real Simple, Parade, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the Boston Globe....

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Beth Morrison

Beth Morrison is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. A leader in her field, she has curated several major exhibitions, including Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500, and Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World....

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Books:
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
A novel
Juliet Grames
Mystery / Thrillers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
July 2024
ISBN 9780593536179
416 pages
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Six Stunning Sirens
Lynn Cahoon
Mystery / Thrillers
Kensington Cozy
September 2024
ISBN 9781496740809
304 pages
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The White Fortress
Beth Morrison
Mystery / Thrillers
Bloomsbury USA
March 2025
ISBN 9781035902095
480 pages
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