LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Steph Cha is the author of "Follow Her Home," "Beware Beware," and "Dead Soon Enough." Her fourth novel, "Your House Will Pay," will be out from Ecco in 2019. She's the noir editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and USA Today... Read More →

Lou Berney is the author of three previous novels, "Gutshot Straight," "Whiplash River," and multiple prize-winning "The Long and Faraway Gone." His short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma... Read More →

Jeffrey Fleishman is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a former foreign correspondent. He has had postings in Rome, Berlin, and Cairo, and has covered wars in Iraq, Libya, and Kosovo. He once climbed the Himalayas with a group of Buddhist monks escaping Chinese soldiers in Tibet. He returned... Read More →

Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including "Gangster Nation," "Gangsterland," which was a finalist for the Hammett Prize, "The House of Secrets," which he co-authored with Brad Meltzer, and "Living Dead Girl," a finalist for the Los Angeles... Read More →

Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Joe's favorite books were the Conan Doyle "Sherlock Holmes" stories. He held a variety of different jobs--including Hollywood screenwriter--before writing "IQ," which went onto win the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus awards for Best Debut... Read More →