CrimeConn 2026: Pick Your Poison
The Friends of Ferguson Library, in partnership with Mystery Writers of America – New York Chapter, present CrimeCONN 2026, Connecticut’s own one-day mystery lovers' conference.
Event Details
Saturday, May 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Main Library, DiMattia Building
The theme this year is Pick Your Poison, where you'll discover how writers convert their life experiences, compelling interests, or just plain curiosity, into mystery and suspense. We'll discuss the blurred lines between crime writing, nonfiction and general fiction, the guilty pleasures of the revenge novel, and the lives of private, professional, real and imagined detectives.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
CrimeCONN will be presented as a hybrid event.
In-person event includes coffee, continental breakfast and lunch.
Tickets
- $50 per person early bird registration through April 17
- $60 per person after April 17
- $45 per person for MWA members, Friends members, seniors and students
Featuring Keynote Speaker Alafair Burke
Author of The Note
Alafair Burke is the Edgar-nominated, New York Times best-selling author of fourteen novels of suspense, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister and Find Me, and coauthor of the best-selling Under Suspicion series. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law. She recently served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and was the first woman of color to be elected to that position. She lives in New York.
