About the author

David Myles Robinson

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​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 started at the Public Defender’s office and eventually became a District Court and ultimately a Circuit Court judge.

Upon retiring in 2010, Robinson completed his first novel, Unplayable Lie, a golf-related suspense novel. Since then, he has published five Pancho McMartin legal thrillers, Tropical Lies, Tropical Judgments, Tropical Deception, Tropical Doubts, and Tropical Scandal, all set in Honolulu, Hawaii. Robinson's non-legal thrillers to date are The Pinochet Plot, Son of Saigon, Words Kill, and Rex, the Kid, the Whore, the Witch, and the Scientist. Conga Line on the Amazon is a collection of travel stories. All of these books are in the process of being rebranded and republished by a new publisher, Speaking Volumes. Tropical Lies, the first in the Pancho McMartin series, has been published and is now available.
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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.