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witty, suspenseful page-turners… highly recommended.”
—Robert Westbrook author of the Howard Moon Deer Mysteries
Pancho McMartin is back in Tropical Scandal, David Myles Robinson’s fifth book in his award-winning legal thriller series set in Honolulu, Hawaii. As with the rest of the books in this series, Pancho’s legal exploits will leave the readers spellbound from the beginning to the end.
When an aging, iconic Hawaii attorney cajoles Pancho into taking over a client he can no longer represent due to health issues, Pancho doesn’t realize he will soon be immersed in a murder trial in which his client, Dayton Kalama, who appears to be mentally slow, is accused of killing his beloved grandmother (tutu wahine). Dayton is an admitted drug mule with little knowledge about who he is working for. The evidence is stacked against him as Pancho and his trusty investigator, Drew Tulafono, work relentlessly to prove the innocence of the young, unfortunate man they have come to believe in. As they peel back layer after layer of corruption and crime, the two become more and more shocked at what is slowly revealed.
Robinson’s decades as a trial attorney in Honolulu and his intimate knowledge of his long-time home gives the readers a feel not just for the judicial system, but also a special glimpse of the islands as the story weaves through local settings.
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About the author
David Myles Robinson has always had a passion for writing. During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, while in college, Robinson worked as a free-lance writer for several magazines and was a staff writer for a weekly minority newspaper in Pasadena, California, called The Pasadena Eagle. However, as he himself admits, upon graduating from San Francisco State University, he decided against the ‘starving writer’ route and went to law school, at the University of San Francisco School of Law. It was there that he met his wife, Marcia Waldorf. After graduating from law school in 1975, the two moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and began practicing law. Robinson became a trial lawyer, specializing in personal injury and workers’ compensation law. Waldorf eventually became a Circuit Court judge.
Upon retiring in 2010, Robinson completed his first novel, Unplayable Lie. He has since published eight more novels, five of which are legal thrillers set in Honolulu: Tropical Lies, Tropical Judgments, Tropical Doubts, Tropical Deception, and Tropical Scandal. His other novels are The Pinochet Plot, Son of Saigon, and Rex, the Kid, the Wore, and the Scientist.
Robinson has also published a book of short travel stories, Conga Line on the Amazon.
Robinson and Waldorf divided their time between Honolulu and their second home in Taos, NM for seven years before finally deciding to see what it’s like to be full-time mainlanders again. They now live in Taos, where Robinson can pursue his non-writing passions of golf, ski, and travel.
