Category: events

On Sat, May 14, at 2pm, we invite you to enjoy us for a wonderful talk by local author Rex Pickett. The Archivist, his latest book, is set in San Diego, around UCSD. When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job […]

Partners in Crime is pleased to announce our next guest for our March 12 Meeting: Luci H. Zahray, well known as “the Poison Lady.” Luci, who has a Masters degree in Toxicology from Texas A&M, has been helping writers who ask how they might dispatch victims with poisons. As retired hospital pharmacist and avid mystery […]

On Saturday, Feb 12 at 2pm Pacific, we invite you to join us for a great talk by Ellen Byron on using humor in mysteries. Free and open to the public. Register at the link below. Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won the Agatha award for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty awards for Best […]

Come join us for a Sisters in Crime event we’re very excited about. Sisters in Crime Tri-State New York and San Diego are collaborating to present our two anthologies: CROSSING BORDERS and JUSTICE FOR ALL: MURDER NEW YORK STYLE. The premises, settings, voices, characters and crimes are wonderfully diverse in these stories. Nevertheless, we’ve organized […]

Join us on Jan 8th of the new year ONLINE at 2pm to hear an author who is also a real-life K-9 trainer for drug sniffing dogs talk about the realities of this profession and also how it appears in her fiction–and how other fiction worlds sometimes get it wrong. Learn more about this fascinating […]

Partners in Crime is pleased to invite the public to this free virtual talk by author-journalist and Hollywood historian Pat H. Broeske. A longtime aficionado of film noir, Pat has written numerous articles about the genre and its stars, and frequently includes noir titles in her Film as Lit classes for the Emeritus program of Saddleback College. Join her […]

Partners in Crime, the San Diego Chapter of Sisters in Crime, is proud to announce its next online meeting/talk. On October 9 at 3pm, join us for this FREE VIRTUAL PANEL on Thrillers and Mysteries. What are the different types of stories (suspense, thriller, psychological, detective, etc.), how do writers going about writing the hero […]

Saturday, Sept 11 at 2pm San Diego Harbor Police Chief Mark G. Stainbrook on Crime at the Port (and Airport) VIRTUAL EVENT – FREE Attendance is free and it is open to the public. SHARE THIS INVITE WITH FRIENDS You are invited to a free special event where Mark Stainbrook, Chief of Police of the […]

Panel with E.A. Aymar, Alma Katsu, and Tara Laskowski You are invited to a free special event on August 22 at 4pm.  As part of their Sizzling Summer Series, three chapters of Sisters in Crime are presenting a FLAVORS OF MYSTERY panel that gives you a taste of three authors’ different takes on the mystery genre.  With […]

The Sisters in Crime chapters of San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles invite you to a special discussion with Heather Graham and Marcia King Gamble on July 11 at 3:00, Pacific Time. They’ll talk on the crossover between romance writing and mysteries. How does romance make a mystery or thriller better, and how does […]