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The Desert Is Full of Bodies brings six writers to the Twentynine Palms Book Festival at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 14. Christopher Church, Kassandra Davis, Andrew Miller, Larry Fondation, Brian Townsley and Elle Jauffret gather inside the Twentynine Palms Community Center at Freedom Plaza.
The panel moves through investigative reporting, historical crime, psychological storytelling and real-life mysteries. The conversation asks what the genre’s popularity reveals about justice and the public’s fascination with crime.
The Community Center is at 6547 Freedom Way in Twentynine Palms.
