Tucson Festival of Books

Exploring the Criminal Mind


Why were highway serial killers so prolific? Why did investigators lie to convict an innocent man? What led to the cocaine boom--and bust? Three writers discuss the behind-the-scenes investigating that allowed them to get inside criminal cases.


Panelists
Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic and formerly of National Public Radio. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling "Fingerprints of God and Life Reimagined....

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T.J. English

T. J. English is a noted journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers "Havana Nocturne," "Paddy Whacked," "The Savage City" and "Where the Bodies Were Buried." He also authored "The Westies," a national bestseller, "Born to Kill," which was nominated for an Edgar Award and "The Corporation....

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Frank Figliuzzi

Frank Figliuzzi was the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the government. He is an MSNBC columnist and a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC....

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Books:
Bringing Ben Home
A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
True Crime
Penguin Publishing Group
August 2024
ISBN 9780593420089
464 pages
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The Last Kilo
Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America
T.J. English
True Crime
HarperCollins Publishers
January 2024
ISBN 9780063265530
512 pages
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Long Haul
Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
Frank Figliuzzi
True Crime
HarperCollins Publishers
May 2024
ISBN 9780063265158
272 pages
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