Molting

Psychological Crime Novel

In Progress

When a wealthy Baltimore developer is photographed collecting cocaine-filled baggies outside an exclusive country club, his reputation begins to unravel.

Retired FBI agent Colbie Speights built her investigative firm, Molting, on a simple premise: establish what happened before deciding what deserves protecting.

But a missing makeup compact, a troubled marriage, and an increasingly suspicious paper trail lead Colbie into a world where political influence and personal ambition make the truth a dangerous commodity.

As the investigation threatens powerful people, Colbie discovers that uncovering the facts is one thing. Controlling what happens afterward is quite another.

There… Go I.

In Progress

I thought I was writing a memoir about twenty years as an FBI Special Agent — interrogation rooms, firearms quals, learning to read people who thought they weren't readable.

It turned out to be about the second chance that almost didn't happen at Quantico, the motherhood I was terrified I was failing in real time, two divorces I didn't see coming, and the slow, unglamorous work of becoming the person I was always going to have to become anyway.

Fighting Grace

In Progress

Grace Rosaland has never fit the mold of an FBI fugitive hunter — and she's stopped trying to.

When a squad-car accident forces her longtime partner into early retirement, Grace is stuck with the detective responsible for it: Julie Marcone, gruff, street-smart, and carrying a reputation problem of her own. Neither of them wanted this partnership. But when a fugitive case turns into a serial killer investigation with implications neither woman saw coming, the two who can barely stand each other may be the only ones who can stop it.