Left Coast Crime

Did you leave your heart in San Francisco? It's time to retrieve it!

Left Coast Crime will return to San Francisco for the first time since Left Coast Crime #1 and #2 were held there in 1991 and 1992! Our 36th annual convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on the Embarcadero near the Ferry Building from February 26 through March 1, 2026.

The San Francisco Cable Car stops right outside the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, the Presidio Go Shuttle provides free trips to the historic Presidio (a National Park Site), and the Embarcadero BART station is just steps away.

The 1915 Ferry Building is right across the street from the Hyatt. The Ferry Building Marketplace is packed with restaurants and shops plus a bookstore! From the Port of San Francisco you can catch a ferry to Alcatraz, Angel Island, Treasure Island, Jack London Square in Oakland, and many other destinations.

https://leftcoastcrime.org/2026/

Happy Book Birthday to Left Coast Crime 2025 Guest of Honor Sara Paretsky. PAY DIRT, #22 in the V.I. Warshawski series, enters the world today!

https://leftcoastcrime.org/2025/

Coming April 9th

Dugoni scores a decisive win with this tale of greed, lust, and bloodshed: it’s chock-full of expertly drawn characters and plenty of historical lore, and its note-perfect noir atmosphere could accommodate James Cagney. Here’s hoping this gets the series treatment. Publisher’s Weekly, starred Review.

Rocky Mountain High Jinks

Left Coast Crime is thrilled to announce our Special Guests for Left Coast Crime 2025: Guests of Honor Manuel Ramos and Sara Paretsky, Fan Guest of Honor Grace Koshida, and Toastmaster John Copenhaver.

Registration is now open for LCC 2025 in Denver, Colorado, March 13-16, 2025. Left Coast Crime registration includes a Welcome Reception, two special Breakfasts, the Awards Banquet, and admission to all panels and interviews. The early registration fee of $299 extends through April 15, 2024, the close of LCC 2024: Seattle Shakedown.

More Information and Online Registration: https://leftcoastcrime.org/2025/

Left Coast Crime is thrilled to announce our 35th convention will be held March 13-16, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.

Our hotel is the Westin Denver Downtown on the 16th Street Mall, a mile-long pedestrian-friendly mall, and right around the corner from Larimer Square, a picturesque city block of restaurants and shops.

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Left Coast Crime is thrilled to announce the special guests for Seattle Shakedown, April 11-14, 2024: Megan Abbott (Guest of Honor), Robert Dugoni (Guest of Honor), Fran Fuller (Fan Guest of Honor), Wanda M. Morris (Toastmaster)

Registration is now open and includes a Welcome Reception, two special Breakfasts, the Awards Banquet, and admission to all panels and interviews. The registration fee is $329 through December 31, 2023. Our hotel rate at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle’s Eastside is $169.

Visit the Seattle Shakedown website for more information about the convention and to register: https://leftcoastcrime.org/2024/

Thanks to photographer Darrell Hoemann, we have videos of four interviews from Left Coast Crime 2023: Trouble in Tucson for your viewing pleasure:
Lifetime Achievement Honoree J.A. Jance interviewed by Barbara Peters; Guest of Honor Glen Erik Hamilton interviewed by Wanda M. Morris; Guest of Honor Sujata Massey interviewed by Juliet Grames; Toastmaster Ellen Byron interviewed by Kellye Garrett

Trouble in Tucson Video interviews from the 2023 Left Coast Crime conference.

News Flash: Left Coast Crime 2024 in Seattle, Washington
When: April 11–14, 2024
Where: Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Room Rate: $169 for April 9–14, plus two nights before and after (subject to availability).
More information about the convention and information about registration will be announced soon.