District Thrills

​District Thrills: Celebrating Local Thriller Authors

​Secrets, suspense, and stories that keep you turning pages.

​Join Long Dark House for an afternoon celebrating six local thriller authors! Enjoy two author discussions exploring all things suspense and thriller, followed by book signings. Discover your next gripping read and meet the writers behind the twists.

​The Schedule

​1:00 PM — Author Discussion
Jennifer van der Kleut, KT Nguyen, and Mindy Carlson discuss suspense, psychological thrillers, and their novels.

​1:45 PM — Book Signing
Meet the authors and have your books signed. Copies will be available for purchase.

​4:00 PM — Author Discussion
Johanna Copeland, Kathleen Barber, and Christina Kovac join us for another conversation about suspense and thriller fiction.

​4:45 PM — Book Signing
Meet the afternoon panelists and pick up signed copies of their novels.

​Meet the Authors & Their Books

• ​Jennifer van der Kleut — The Better Mother
  A tense psychological thriller filled with obsession and cat-and-mouse suspense.

• ​KT Nguyen — You Know What You Did
  A psychological thriller weaving together memory loss, obsession, and a woman accused of murder.

• ​Mindy Carlson — Her Dying Day
  A vanished mystery author and a documentary filmmaker determined to uncover the truth—with danger growing at every revelation.

• ​Johanna Copeland — Our Kind of Game
  A dark, twisting story exploring violence, identity, and the secrets that ripple through families.

• ​Kathleen Barber — Sisterhood Above All
  A sorority thriller where belonging, status, and sisterhood come at a deadly cost.

• ​Christina Kovac — Watch Us Fall
  Four friends’ carefully curated lives begin to unravel after a Washington, DC investigative reporter dies mysteriously.

​Location: Long Dark House
1510 King Street, Alexandria, VA

​Come for the suspense. Leave with a story that follows you home.