Shari Lapena is an internationally bestselling author of thrillers including "The Couple Next Door" and "What Have You Done?". Her books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She joined Brian Cosgrove and Diane Masciale as a guest of honor at the 2025 Hamptons Whodunit Festival to talk about her recent "binge-worthy" novel, her creative process, and more.

Lucy Foley studied English literature at Durham University and University College London and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She is the author of five novels including THE MIDNIGHT FEAST and THE GUEST LIST.

She joined Brian Cosgrove and Diane Masciale as a guest of honor at the 2025 Hamptons Whodunit festival.

Joseph Scott Morgan, M.F.S., F-ABMDI, is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University where he holds the faculty rank of Associate Professor of Applied Forensics. Morgan holds a Master of Forensic Sciences degree from National University and is a Board-Certified Fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. Morgan is considered one of the leading experts on the Coroner System in the United States.

In 2013, Morgan was named “Georgia Author of the Year” for his memoir entitled BLOOD BENEATH MY FEET: THE JOURNEY OF A SOUTHERN DEATH INVESTIGATOR.

He also has a successful Podcast called Body Bags.

He joined Brian Cosgrove and Diane Masciale during the 2025 Hamptons Whodunit festival to discuss all this and more.