Robert Dugoni Books in Order – Complete List

Robert Dugoni is a New York Times bestselling author best known for his Tracy Crosswhite legal thriller / police procedural series. In addition, he has also written other series including the attorney David Sloane legal thriller series, the Charles Jenkins spy thriller series, and his newer legal thriller Keera Duggan series, which he started in 2023.

Here are the Robert Dugoni books in order for his popular series to be read in the right chronological order. The publication order is the same as the chronology.

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Tracy Crosswhite Books in Publication Order

1. The Academy (#0.1), 2014 (short story)
2. Third Watch (#0.5), 2015
3. My Sister’s Grave  (#1), 2014
4. Her Final Breath (#2), 2015
5. In the Clearing  (#3), 2016
6. The Trapped Girl (#4), 2017
7. Close to Home (#5), 2017
8. A Steep Price (#6), 2018
9. A Cold Trail (#7), 2020
10. In Her Tracks (#8), 2021
11. The Last Line (#8.5), 2021
12. What She Found (#9), 2022
13. One Last Kill (#10), 2023
14. Dead Draw (#11), 2025
15. One Split Second (#12), 2026

Tracy Crosswhite Short Stories

• The Academy, 2014
• Third Watch, 2015
• The Last Line, 2021

Keera Duggan Books in Publication Order

1. Her Deadly Game (#1), 2023
2. Beyond Reasonable Doubt (#2), 2024
3. Her Cold Justice (#3), 2026

Charles Jenkins Books in Publication Order

1. The Eighth Sister (#1), 2019
2. The Last Agent (#2), 2020

David Sloane Books in Publication Order

1. The Jury Master (#1), 2008
2. Wrongful Death (#2), 2009
3. Bodily Harm (#3), 2010
4. Murder One (#4), 2011
5. The Conviction (#5), 2012

Standalone Novels in Order of Publication

• Damage Control, 2007
• Hotel Angeline, 2011 (with other authors)
• The 7th Canon, 2016
• The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, 2018
• The World Played Chess, 2021
• A Killing on the Hill, 2024
• Hold Strong, 2025

Short Story Collections and Anthologies

• Cold-Blooded, 2015
• Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives, 2020
• Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge, 2022 (edited by Harlan Coben)

Non-Fiction Books

• The Cyanide Canary, 2004 (expose book with Joseph Hilldorfer)

Robert Dugoni Biography

New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni was born in 1961 in Idaho and was raised in Northern California. He is currently living in Seattle, Washington.

He always knew that he wanted to become a writer. He grew up as the middle child among other nine siblings, so he often liked to retreat to solitude and write. Also, being among so many kids, he once joked that he never got a chance to actually speak. He knew he wanted to become an established author by the seventh grade.

Robert Dugoni attended the Stanford University, where he majored in communications/journalism and creative writing, where he got several writing awards. At the same time, he was also working as a journalist for the Stanford Daily. After graduation with the Phi Beta Kappa honor from the university, he went to work for a while at the Metro Office and the San Gabriel Valley Office of the Los Angeles Times.

Next, he went to the  UCLA School of Law, after which he began working as an attorney at Gordon & Rees in San Francisco. He remained there for 13 years until one day, in 1999, he decided that writing is what he wanted to continue doing.

So Robert Dugoni packed his stuff and moved with his family to Seattle, where he began writing his first novel in a small windowless office. It took him three years to complete his debut novel.

His first successes started with failure. After submitting his manuscripts and getting rejected over and over again, Robert went to the local bookstore’s How To section focusing on writing books and started to devour them and taking notes at the same time. He read writing books by Lawrence Block, Christopher Vogler, and Saul Stein among others. He also went to seminars held by established authors that had something to teach them about the art and craft of writing.

The author also has a second, shorter legal thriller series called the David Sloane series, which includes five courtroom drama books, each a gripping legal thriller, with the latest one published in 2012. This one is a legal thriller series and if you like John Grisham, you will enjoy it. I started reading Robert’s books with David Sloan, and then I went back and read all the author’s other series.

In 2019, Robert Dugoni started his third series titled the Charles Jenkins books, with a first story published in April with the title The Eighth Sister, and a second titled The Last Agent, released in 2020.

A new Robert Dugoni book series was published in 2023 featuring Keera, a fearless defense attorney and her team. The first novel was released with the title Her Deadly Game. The second book, Beyond Reasonable Doubt is released in October 2024. Her Cold Justice, the third book in the series, will be released early 2026.

Robert Dugoni’s books have been so far sold in over 25 countries, and they have been translated into over 30 languages including German, French, Spanish, and Italian. A few of his books have been optioned for movies and television series.

When not writing, the author is teaching writing skills to his students across the US in his novel writing intensive course.

Reading the Robert Dugoni Tracy Crosswhite series about the homicide detective in order is quite entertaining. The first novel introduces us to Tracy, a homicide detective who is forever searching for the killer of her sister, Sarah. The book climbed the #1 Amazon Bestseller list of Amazon in the United States, France, Italy, Germany and in the UK. It also went on the Bestseller list of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Tracy Crosswhite had a very small role in one of the David Sloane books, namely in Murder One. Before starting the new series, the author decided to revisit his first series and see which character would speak to him most. He chose Tracy, and the rest is history.

While the series is a legal court drama, with homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite, Dugoni went into another direction exploring the crime mystery genre. The first novel still has traces of legal mystery within, however, the rest of the novels are pure detective mystery books.

I suggest you read the Robert Dugoni books in publication order for his series, not so much for the storylines but for the character development and interaction. The author mentioned in an interview that he might go back to writing yet another Sloane book, although he doesn’t know when.

In terms of non fiction books, the author has one so far co-authored with Joseph Hilldorfer, an expose titled The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice.

Robert Dugoni Book Adaptations

The Eighth Sister, the first book in the Charles Jenkins series, has been purchased by Roadside Attractions for a TV series adaptation.

The standalone novella The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell’s rights have been aquired by Australian film producer Lisa Kahn for a movie adaptation.

My Sister’s Grave, the third book in the Tracy Crosswhite series, has been optioned for television series.

Robert Dugoni Awards and Nominations

As a critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author, Robert Dugoni has received so far several awards and was nominated for others.

Awards:

• he received the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s Literary Award two times
• My Sister’s Grave won the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction in 2015
• The Cyanide Canary, his non-fiction expose book was a Washington Post 2004 Best Book of the year
• The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell received the Suspense Magazine’s 2019 Book of the Year
• The Trapped Girl won the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award in 2023. Robert Dugoni won this award twice.

Nominations:

• In The Clearing was a finalist for the 2017 International Thriller Writers Awar
• Murder One and My Sister’s Grave were nominated for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction
• My Sister’s Grave and In the Clearing were finalists for Thriller of the Year in 2015 and 2017 by the International Thriller Writer
• The Seventh Canon was a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 2017.

In addition, the was nominated for several awards, such as the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writer of the Year Award, and the Silver Falchion Award for mystery.

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