Eastside, May 2010

Kirkland’s Robert Dugoni quit a lucrative law career to pen Grishmanesque thriller novels nobody would buy. Then Leo DiCaprio started calling. Dugoni’s latest, Bodily Harm, may put him over the million-copy mark.

While Robb Hunt was opening the latest Broadway smash from Issaquah’s Village Theatre, previous one, Next to Normal, was the dark-horse winner of the Pulitzer Prize. “It was a good week.”