2012 Faculty - Keynote Speaker Don Winslow, with Cara Black, Tarquin Hall, Karin Slaughter and many more!
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    This year's participants will spend
four event-filled days in beautiful Northern California writing,
workshopping, networking, and perfecting their craft with a celebrated
faculty featuring prize-winning authors including conference keynote
speaker Don Winslow (New York Times bestselling author of Savages--adapted to film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, The Dawn Patrol, and the forthcoming The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages); Cara Black (Author of the Aimée Leduc Investigation series); Tarquin Hall (Author of the Vish Puri mysteries); Karin Slaughter (Internationally bestselling author of the Grant County series) and others. |
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 Don Winslow - 2012 Keynote Speaker
New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the forthcoming The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages,
due out from Simon & Schuster in June. Winslow’s new novel is being
published to coincide with the release of the film adaption of Savages,
directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. Set to hit
theaters in July, Stone’s widely anticipated film stars John Travolta,
Blake Lively, Benecio Del Toro, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Taylor
Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, and Salma Hayek. Among the most celebrated
literary thrillers in recent memory, Savages was selected as a "Top 10 Book of 2010" by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly, as well as other publications around the world. Winslow's other books include The Gentlemen’s Hour, Satori, The Dawn Patrol, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Power of the Dog, California Fire and Life, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z. Read more >>
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| Cara Black
Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track, a Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police, private detectives and café owners. Cara is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. Her bestselling and award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series, which includes Murder in the Latin Quarter, Murder in the Marais, and Murder at the Lanterne Rouge, has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Hebrew. She lives in San Francisco. Read more >> |
| Rhys Bowen
New York Times bestselling and Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of the atmospheric Molly Murphy mysteries, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and the Royal Spyness mysteries, sparkling British comedies featuring penniless minor royal Lady Georgiana in the 1930s. Read more >>
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| Tony Broadbent
Acclaimed author of the Jethro books, The Smoke and The Spectres in the Smoke, about a cat burglar and jewel thief, in post World War II England. The third book in the series, Shadows in the Smoke will be published in August. Read more >>
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| | Peter Busch
Judge Peter J. Busch has been a San Francisco Superior Court judge since 2000. He currently presides over a civil law and motion department. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Busch spent 20 years as a civil litigator at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, where he also served as managing director. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1977. After law school, he clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.
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David Cole
Cole has divided his time between publishing, writing, and marketing, cultivating experience in every aspect of the book publishing business. He founded Bay Tree Publishing
in 2002. Read more >> |
| David Corbett
A skilled private
investigator, having worked 15 years for the famed private investigation
firm of Palladino & Sutherland, Corbett is also a highly-talented writer
of crime fiction. His novels including Do They Know I’m Running?, Blood of Paradise, Done for a Dime, and The Devil’s Redhead. Read more >> |
 | Robert Dugoni
Former attorney and author of books in the David Sloane series, including The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm, Murder One, and The Conviction, the fifth in the series, which will be released in June. Dugoni's books have been published in 18 foreign countries. In addition to writing novels he teaches the craft of writing and writing novels throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Read more >> |
| George Fong
Director of Security with ESPN and former Supervising Agent for the FBI.
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| Lisa Gallagher
Literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. As former Senior Vice President & Publisher of William Morrow, Lisa became known as an indefatigable author advocate who helped nurture the careers of many writers. She was lucky enough to work with numerous New York Times bestselling authors, including Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, James Rollins, and Neal Stephenson. Read more >> |
| Al Giannini
Former prosecutor in San Francisco
and San Mateo Counties for 32 years. Al has prosecuted more than a
hundred murder cases, and tried more than 50 of them to verdict. He has
never had an acquittal in a homicide.
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 | George Gibson
Publishing Director of Bloomsbury USA and Publisher and Editorial Director for the Bloomsbury and Walker adult lists. George began his career in the book business in 1972 as a clerk at The Old Corner Bookstore in Boston, which was then the oldest continuously running bookstore in America. Since then, he has been associated with David R. Godine, Addison-Wesley, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. |
| William C. Gordon
is the author most recently of The Chinese Jars, a mystery set in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 1960s. He is also the author of King of the Bottom, The Ugly Dwarf, Duelo en Chinatown, and the forthcoming The Halls of Power. William
is an attorney with a law office in Sausalito, a father, photographer,
and world traveler with his wife, author Isabel Allende. Read more >> |
 | Judy Greber
Greber writes under the name Gillian Roberts, and is the author of the Anthony-award winning Amanda Pepper mystery series that features a Philadelphia high school English teacher. Gllian has also written two books in a second series featuring a pair of private detectives. That series is set in Marin County. The geography of the two series is no accident—the author is a native Philadelphian who now lives in California. Read more >> |
| Tarquin Hall
Author of the Vish Puri mysteries, starring India’s “most private investigator” and three works of non-fiction, including the highly acclaimed Salaam Brick Lane. His new book is The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken. Read more >> |
| Jesse Kellerman
Author of The Executor, The Genius, Trouble, Sunstroke, and his latest book Potboiler. He holds an MFA in theater. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Princess Grace Award, given to America’s most promising young playwright. Read more >> |
| Arthur Kerns
Kerns did a stint with the US Navy amphibious forces, and then joined the FBI with a career in counterintelligence and counter terrorism. Retiring from the FBI, he became a consultant with the Director of Central Intelligence and the Department of State. His lengthy assignments took him to over 65 countries. He is the author of The Riviera Contract and The Past is Never Dead. Read more >> |
| John Lescroart
New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into 16 languages in more than 75 countries, Lescroart is the author of numerous crime novels and courtroom mysteries. His books include Treasure Hunt, A Plague of Secrets, The Hunt Club, Damage, and The Hunter. Read more >> |
| D.P. Lyle
Physician and the author of Howdunit Forensics, a definitive reference guide for writers. He is also the author of Forensics and Fiction, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Royal Pains: First, Do No Harm, Royal Pains: Sick Rich, and more Forensics and Fiction, which will be published this spring. Read more >> |
| Tim Maleeny
Author of the acclaimed Cape Weathers series, including Stealing The Dragon, Beating The Babushka, and Greasing The Piñata. His latest book is Jump. Tim's short fiction has won the prestigious Macavity Award and appears in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen, Crimespree Magazine, and the anthologies Death Do Us Part, Uncage Me, and Thriller 2. Read more >> |
| Amy Rennert
Literary agent at The Amy Rennert Agency. Amy has spent
more than 20 years in the publishing business, pursuing her passion for
the written word. The agency represents a select group of quality
fiction and nonfiction writers—many of them award-winners—and dozens
of agency books have been New York Times and national bestsellers. Read more >> |
| Kirk Russell
Kirk's early novels feature the head of an undercover California Fish and Game team. His latest novel, A Killing in China Basin, begins a new crime series set in San Francisco, featuring homicide inspector, Ben Raveneau, and his partner Elizabeth la Rosa. Read more >> |
 | Sheldon Siegel
Conference co-chair Sheldon Siegel epitomizes the spirit of the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. Sheldon’s courtroom mysteries include Special Circumstances, Incriminating Evidence, Criminal Intent, Judgment Day and his newest book Perfect Alibi. Sheldon is a Conference alumnus—his first book was published as a result of contacts he made at the Mystery Writers Conference. Read more >> |
| Karin Slaughter
Internationally bestselling author of eleven thrillers, including the Grant County series. Slaughter's latest book is Criminal, which will be published in July. Her earlier books include Fallen and Blindsighted. Read more >> |
| Don Winslow
New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the forthcoming The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages, due out from Simon & Schuster in June. Winslow’s new novel is being published to coincide with the release of the film adaption of Savages, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. Winslow's other books include The Gentlemen’s Hour, Satori, The Dawn Patrol, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Power of the Dog, California Fire and Life, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z. Read more >> |
| Jacqueline Winspear
Conference co-chair Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the acclaimed Maisie Dobbs series, which includes Birds of a Feather, An Incomplete Revenge, Among the Mad, A Lesson in Secrets, and the latest, Elegy for Eddie. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in a series, Maisie Dobbs, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Read more >> |
