As we look over the registration list for Magna XIX, we are ecstatic to see so many returning Magna cum Murderers. If we had any doubts (we didn't) about moving to Indianapolis, we are more convinced than ever that it is the right thing to do. Heaven knows we'll miss Muncie and the Horizon Center, but the Columbia Club is going to be a fabulous new home for us!

Maureen Jennings has been blazing new trails since her last appearance here in 2006. (Her husband, Iden Ford, is another Magna husband we always look forward to seeing!)

Her latest book is Season of Darkness, a Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Mystery, released in August.

Praise for Season of Darkness:

"Jennings has always had a keen eye for the marginalized members of society. . . . As the only police inspector in his insular Shropshire village, Tom Tyler . . . finds himself torn between loyalty to his neighbors and his sense of duty - a conflict that could easily take a Tom Tyler series through the end of the war." -New York Time Book Review

"Master storyteller and screenwriter Jennings . . . launches a trilogy with this superb entry. Readers will be swept away by the sagalike tone and the characters' singular problems and traits. Think the British television series Foyle's War for comparison." -Library Journal (starred review)

"A fine mystery. . . . [Tyler] has a vulnerable side that makes him a character whom readers will want to know better as this series continues." -Halifax Chronicle-Herald

"Tyler . . . is just as complex and appealing as Murdoch. . . . [Season of Darkness] stacks up well against other fine and compelling literature set during the Second World War." -Joan Barfoot, London Free Press

Then there's our great Magna friend, William Kent Krueger! 

Since the second festival, people have likened Magna cum Murder to a family reunion, dinner-on-the-grounds, and a house party for 200 of your closest friends. For us it feels like a homecoming!  Don't miss out! Register right now.

~ Kathryn