The 2025 edition of the Festival

After the 'zero edition of 2024 our second edition expanded to three days from November 14 to 17in a much- expanded programme that brought some of the best-known Italian and European authors to Venice thanks to the partnership with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival di Harrogate , Europe's foremost crime writing festival. Venice was the setting for three days of round tables, talks, book presentations and many side events with featuringItalian and international genre literature.

The guests of the second edition

Ian Rankin, Carlo Lucarelli, Barbara Barladi, Massimo Carlotto, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Paola Barbato, Anna Mazzola, Barbara Nadel, David Bishop, Andrea Molesini, David Hewson, Erin Kelly, Essie Fox, Gregory Dowling, John Bleasdale, Lisa Hilton, Philip Gwynne Jones, Marco Azzalini, Livia Sambrotta, Alberto Toso Fei, Marco Steiner, Gianni Dubbini Venier, Alessandro Marzo Magno, Fulvio Luna Romero, Giuliano Pasini, Tom Benjamin e molti altri.