Like every year, Quais du Polar will honor independent bookstores with a dozenbookstores in partnership. Fully engaged in the event, they will present a large and eclectic selection of novels of the genre in the Palais de la Bourse and in the Crime Fiction Grande Librairie.

Authors will meet the public and sign their books at our partner bookshop stands in the Palais de la Bourse’s central hall, the ‘Salle de la Corbeille’ throughout the festival.

You will be able to meet authors for signing sessions, from Friday morning to Sunday evening, on the following stalls: A Titred’Aile (Lyon 1), Le Bal des Ardents (Lyon 1), Decitre (Lyon 2), L’Esprit Livre (Lyon 3), Expérience (Lyon 2), Le Square (Grenoble), Lucioles (Vienne), Musicalame (Lyon 1), Passages (Lyon 2), Tramway (Lyon 3) et Vivement Dimanche (Lyon 4).

Entrance to the Palais de la Bourse is free.

The book signing schedule will be available in march 2024.

Booksellers (new and second hand books), a DVD area and thematic bookstores will also be in the Hôtel de Ville where events will take place all weekend long.

Upcoming book signing