The Beach Reporter

From lawyer to mystery novelist, Palos Verdes Estate’s Don Davis keeps readers guessing

For more than six years, Palos Verdes Estate’s resident Don Davis has been a securities lawyer by day and a murder mystery writer by night with stories inspired by his career and the South Bay.

His latest book, “The Strand,” is loosely inspired by the McMartin Preschool child molestation trial in Manhattan Beach that took the country by storm in the 1980s…