Chris will participate on a panel, "My First Novel," along with Anna Schachner, author of You and I and Someone Else.  The panel will take place from 12:15 to 1:15.

Chris will participate in the panel "Crime Wave: Race-to-the-Finish Mysteries" along with authors Nicole Baart (Little Broken Things), Lyndsay Faye (Jane Steele), and Philip Gerard (The Dark of the Island) at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Author Meredith Cole will moderate.