The 7th Canon (44 page)
Authors: Robert Dugoni
Tags: #Thrillers & Suspense, #Crime Fiction, #Mystery, #Thriller & Suspense, #Legal, #Thrillers, #Murder, #Thriller
Special thanks to Thomas & Mercer’s former editorial director, Alan Turkus, for his guidance, spot-on editorial advice, and friendship. By the time
The 7th Canon
is published, Alan will be settled in Minnesota working on his own novels, and I sincerely hope you light the
#1
sign at Thomas & Mercer.
Thanks to Tami Taylor, who runs my website, creates my foreign-language book covers, creates my newsletter, and otherwise does a fantastic job. Thanks to Sean McVeigh at 425 Media for his help with all my social-media needs. You’re both a lot smarter than I am, and I’m glad to have you on my team. Thanks to Pam Binder and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association for their tremendous support of my work.
Thank you also to the loyal readers who write to tell me how much they enjoy my books and await the next. You are the reason I keep looking for the next great story.
Thanks to Joe and Catherine and to my wife, Cristina. After eleven novels, you know I couldn’t do this without you three. You know how much I love you all and how proud I am of both our children.
Thanks to my mother, Patty Dugoni. You’ve always been my inspiration. When things get tough, I think of you, raising ten kids, going back to school at forty, starting your own accounting business, and forty-three years later still going to work at your own business. Remarkable. At eighty-three, my mother attends writers’ conferences with me, and by the second day, everyone is talking about how wonderful she is. They’re right. Love you, Ma.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo © 2014 Catherine Dugoni
Robert Dugoni is the author of the bestselling Tracy Crosswhite series (
My Sister’s Grave
,
Her Final Breath
, and
In the Clearing
) as well as the critically acclaimed David Sloane series (
The Jury Master
,
Wrongful Death
,
Bodily Harm
,
Murder One
, and
The Conviction
). He’s been ranked number one on Amazon’s list of most popular authors in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy, and he has been a
New York Times
,
Wall Street Journal
, and Amazon bestseller multiple times. Dugoni was nominated twice for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction and for the International Thriller Award.
My Sister’s Grave
won the 2015 Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and was named one of the best thrillers of 2014 by
Library Journal
and
Suspense Magazine
. Dugoni’s nonfiction exposé,
The Cyanide Canary
, was a
Washington Post
Best Book of the Year, and the
Providence Journal
referred to him as “the undisputed king of the legal thriller” and “heir to Grisham’s literary throne.” Visit his website at
www.robertdugoni.com
, e-mail him at
[email protected]
, and follow him on Twitter at
@robertdugoni
and on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertDugoni
.
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