To request a visit by Lori to your bookstore, library, conference, festival, or other cultural event, contact Lori’s publicist Hector DeJean at hector.dejean (at) stmartins.com or use the contact page.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 7PM, live music from 6:30PM
BookSocial 502 Event with James Markert! Live music by Cait Justice!
3rd Turn Brewing
10408 Watterson Trl, Louisville, KY
Books sold by Carmichael’s Bookstore!
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 4PM Eastern
Viewpoint Books Chapter Two
435 Washington St
Columbus, Indiana
Free and open to the public!
Monday, February 16, 2026, 7PM
Minnesota Mystery Night, interviewed by Kate Malmon!
Lucky’s 13 Pub, 1352 Sibley Memorial Hwy, Mendota Heights, MN
Books sold by Once Upon a Crime
Reservations open now here!
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5PM
Reading and Discussion on Writing and Publishing—All Welcome!
Roosevelt University, Room AUD 720
430 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL
Free and open to the public!
Saturday, February 21, 2026, VIRTUAL EVENT, 1PM Phoenix Mountain Time/2pm Central/3pm Eastern/12noon Pacific
“Suspense for Scaredy Cats” with Tucson Sisters in Crime Chapter
Not a member? You can sign up for $5 here.
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 7PM
Ask Me Anything Chat with Sisters in Crime Chicagoland for writers of all genre!
Dandelion Bookshop
139 Oak Park Blvd
Oak Park, Illinois
Register here! (try a desktop computer if the mobile app isn’t working for you)
Sunday, February 22, 2026, VIRTUAL EVENT, 8PM-E, 7PM-C, 6PM-M, 5PM-P
I’ll be talking about Wreck Your Heart and talking to readers directly on The Back Room with three other amazing authors!
Free! Sign up here!
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 3-5PM
I’ll be signing books for the Grand Re-opening of the new Barnes & Noble Old Orchard.
Left Coast Crime in San Francisco, California
February 26-March 1, 2026
Look for me on the Liars’ Panel and the panel on music—first music in mystery panel for Wreck Your Heart!
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 12:30PM
I’ll be talking about Death at Greenway and my research into Agatha Christie’s house and work!
Patty Turner Center
375 Elm St, Deerfield, Illinois
Free, open to the public! No books will be sold at this event, so find copies of Death at Greenway at Book Bin ahead of time!
Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Arizona
February 14-15, 2026
Look for me on panels about Chicago crime fiction and unease!
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 6:30PM
I’ll be talking about Death at Greenway and my research into Agatha Christie’s house and work!
Deerfield Public Library
920 Waukegan Road, Deerfield, Illinois
Free, open to the public!
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Join us for Midwest Mystery Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Registration required! Open to all ages.
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 6:30PM Eastern
A Mystery Panel with Lori Rader-Day, Jennifer J. Chow, and Catriona McPherson
The People’s Book
7014 Westmoreland Ave Suite A, Takoma Park, Maryland
Free, open to the public!
Malice Domestic Mystery Conference in North Bethesda, Maryland
April 23-26, 2026
Looking ahead!
I’ll also be attending the following events in 2026! Make your plans to join me?
• Gaithersburg Literary Festival, Gaithersburg, MD, May 16-17
• Bouchercon Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 21-25
More events are always being added to my schedule! Sign up at my newsletter to hear the details.
