Magna cum Murder

Crime Writing Festival

 

October 30-November 1, 2015 

The Columbia Club, Indianapolis, IN

 

Guest of Honor ~ William Kent Krueger

International Guest of Honor ~ Simon Brett

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Sponsored by
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

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Magna cum Murder
Kathryn Kennison, Director

Steering Committee
Jama Kehoe Bigger
Ruthie Lucas
Diane Watters





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Charles and Caroline Todd's latest novel!

 

When we queried our Magna authors about their latest book news, we received this happy report from Caroline and Charles Todd:

"A Pattern of Lies, the brand new Bess Crawford, is out in hardcover on August 18, always so exciting. She's dealing with the repercussions of a gunpowder mill explosion and fire in Kent that killed over a hundred men.  Was it an accident?  An act of God?  Or was it actually murder?  Where is the only witness?  And who is trying to keep Bess from finding him?  At any price...


And we have a collection of four short stories, called Tales, two Bess and two Rutledge collected under one cover for the first time--just out now in e-format and in September, in a limited print run. 


Next year's Rutledge, No Shred of Evidence, is finished and in production. It's set in Cornwall, and we're back with Rutledge in the autumn of 1920, after this year's A Fine Summer's Day, a look at the younger Rutledge in 1914, and the trying months before war was declared.


Wait until you see the jackets for all three!"


~ Caroline and Charles Todd

And more news from Magna athors

 

John Desjarlais is a familiar face at our Magna festivals and we're glad he's returning this year.

His latest novel is Specter: a mystery,

available now from Chesterton Press.

 

Selena De La Cruz would like to leave the past behind as she plans her wedding ... but the past no longer sleeps. In 1993, a Cardinal was murdered in Mexico at the Guadalajara Airport.  Nearly twenty years later, the Vatican revisits the case ... and finds that Selena's dead father might have played a key role.  Selena is forced to confront her family's ghosts ... in more ways than one...


"A wonderful ride!" - Regina Doman, author of The Midnight Dancers
 

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Just in time for Magna, Libby Fischer Hellmann will have a novella (in e-book and print) called The Incidental Spy. Here's the book description: 

 

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy is another fascinating historical thriller by Libby Fischer Hellmann, also the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone thrillers Set the Night on Fire, A Bitter Veil, and Havana Lost.

Hotel Information

 

In addition to the block of rooms at the Columbia Club, Magna's host hotel, we have a block of rooms reserved at the 
Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown10 East Market Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204. (317) 955-9700. 

 

To book your room at the Hilton Garden Inn:

  1. Call the front desk at (317) 955-9700.
  2. Reference the Magna cum Murder, group code CMC15
  3. The associate should be able to tell you what is currently available in the block 
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