Seattle author and 2012 Harper Lee Prize Finalist Robert Dugoni returns with The Conviction (on sale June 12), a gripping new thriller about a father forced to take the law into his own hands to save his son.
Dugoni will speak and sign at the following Seattle-area events. Books will be available for purchase.
--June 12 at 12:00pm / Seattle Mystery Bookshop (117 Cherry Street, Seattle, WA 98104)
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--June 12 at 5:00pm / Tin Room Bar & Grill (923 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA 98166)
--June 13 at 7:00pm / (348 Parkplace Center, Kirkland, WA 98033)
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Robert Dugoni has practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for more than 17 years and is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary contest. He is the author of Murder One, Bodily Harm, Wrongful Death, The Jury Master, and The Cyanide Canary. Dugoni lives with his family in Seattle. www.robertdugoni.com
ASSOCIATED PRESS: “One of the best legal thriller writers in the business unleashes another stellar effort. . . . The names John Grisham and Scott Turow are mentioned when discussing the legal thriller genre. Robert Dugoni is as good, if not better.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL: “Dugoni is at his best in the action scenes, which are the foundation of his narrative. Fans of John Grisham and Scott Turow will be pleased with this offering.”
Attorney David Sloane is desperate to get through to his troubled teenaged son, Jake. Still reeling from his mother’s brutal murder, the sixteen-year-old is spiraling out of control and Sloane has barely been able to keep him out of jail. When his old friend, detective Tom Molia, suggests taking their sons on a guys-only camping trip, Sloane seizes the opportunity to spend quality time with Jake while keeping him out of harm’s way.
The perfect getaway turns into a father’s nightmare, when Jake vandalizes a small town general store with Molia’s young son, T.J., as an unwitting accomplice. The boys are summarily tried, convicted, and sentenced to six months in the Fresh Start juvenile detention facility, a boot camp in California’s Gold Country wilderness.
As Sloane fights the conviction, he soon finds that county judge Earl Boykin bends the law to his will with an authority that seems to go unquestioned. Meanwhile, Jake and T.J. learn the hard way that Fresh Start has a very different purpose than rehabilitating troubled youths. For the first time, Sloane feels utterly paralyzed by the judicial system. With their legal options exhausted, Sloane and Molia will do anything to save their sons, even mount a daring rescue operation that could win the boys their freedom—or cost all of them their lives.