Beyond The Darkness

True Crime Tuesday presents A Killing On The Hill with Researcher/Author, Robert Dugoni! A Killing On The Hill is Dugoni’s first historical novel, a true crime thriller set in 1930s Seattle during Prohibition and the Great Depression.  The book was inspired by a real-life shooting at a notorious nightclub on Profanity Hill. The victim is Frankie Ray, a former prizefighter, and his accused killer is the club’s owner and mobster George Miller (George Moore in real life), who claims he pulled the trigger in self-defense. The crime, investigation, and ensuing criminal trial had the entire city transfixed, and competing newspapers raced against each other to land the biggest scoop on each development.  Dugoni learned about the case after discovering scrapbooks filled with articles about the shooting, arrest and trial collected by his wife’s grandfather, who was a local attorney at the time. Through those dozens of articles, books on the historical period, and with the help of an enthusiastic librarian at the Sea