Robert Dugoni

The chief protagonist in Robert Dugoni’s second novel Damage Control, Dana Hill, is a rising star in a prestigious Seattle law firm. Her home life is a balancing act between trying to raise a young daughter and please a self-centered husband, Grant Brown, who refuses to acknowledge she is smarter and more successful than he is. When she is diagnosed with breast cancer and learns of her husband’s long time affair, her life starts falling apart. Then her beloved brother James is murdered. She puts her personal problems aside to search for his killer. The secondary characters in Damage appear only briefly, but they are pivotal to everything that happens in the story. Dr. Frank Pilgrim is an elderly pediatrician who is the impetus for the story. William Welles is a reclusive jewelry designer who brings about the resolution of the story. Carmen Dupree is a housekeeper who helps Dana find her brother’s murderer.
Robert Dugoni graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a degree in journalism and received a law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He gave up the practice of law to become a full-time writer. He is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. He and his family live in the Pacific Northwest.
His first credit was as a co-author (Joseph Hilldorfer) of The Cyanide Canary, a non-fiction book about a wrongful death case. His first novel was The Jury Master, published in March, 2006.