Robin Burcell

Robin Burcell (born 1959) is an American author and forensic artist. She trained with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and worked in law enforcement for over two decades as a police officer, detective, and hostage negotiator.

She has worked as a cop, hostage negotiator, and as an FBI-trained forensic artist. She is the award-winning author of the Kate Gillespie police procedural series, the Sydney Fitzpatrick thriller series, a Streets of San Francisco novel, and is now writing thrillers with Clive Cussler.