Tucson Festival of Books

Smarter Than the Bad Guys


From Sherlock Holmes on, we love a brilliant sleuth. Chasing clues and fitting the pieces together takes a lot of brain power. These authors have given us investigators to cheer for and think about.


Panelists
David McCloskey

David McCloskey is a former CIA Analyst and consultant at McKinsey & Company. His latest book is "The Seventh Floor". While at the CIA in worked in field stations across the Middle East. His book "Moscow X" was also released in 2024....

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Megan Miranda

Megan Miranda takes beautiful places and turns them sinister in her newest mystery "Daughter of Mine." Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of "All the Missing Girls," "The Perfect Stranger," "The Last House Guest," "Such a Quiet Place" and "The Last to Vanish....

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Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless is the Wall Street Journal and No. 1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of seven award-winning novels. Her Sydney Parnell series has been optioned for television. Barbara lives at the base of a 14,000-foot mountain where she loves to hike, snowshoe, and venture through tunnels deep underground....

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Books:
The Seventh Floor
David McCloskey
Mystery / Thrillers
W. W. Norton
October 2024
ISBN 9781324086680
400 pages
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The Drowning Game
Barbara Nickless
Mystery / Thrillers
Amazon Publishing
November 2024
ISBN 9781662510014
379 pages
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