| Chat with Robin Burcell |
 Robin Burcell, an FBI-trained forensic artist, has worked in law enforcement for over two decades as a police officer, detective, and hostage negotiator. Prior to being a criminal investigator in Sacramento County, California, she was a police officer and detective for the city of Lodi for eighteen years and
was the first female officer hired, which meant breaking through the barriers and prejudices that went with that title.
She has testified as an expert in the fields of forensic art, fingerprints, and child abuse. An FBI academy-trained forensic artist, her drawings have been used to solve a number of crimes, including homicides, 
bank robberies, and hate crimes, and she was called upon by various law enforcement entities, including the FBI, for this skill. She has worked with live witnesses, and the dead, sometimes having to set up shop in a morgue to draw the corpses for identification purposes after they have been found
in a state beyond recognition (hence the term forensic artist). Her past undercover assignments have been as a hooker, a housewife, and a high school student (and although this was years ago, she still retains her youthful looks). She worked patrol and was a hostage negotiator for a number of years. She has also served as a detective  investigating sexual assault, child abuse, crimes against persons, and crimes against property (burglaries, thefts, embezzlements).
She is the author of the Anthony Award winning SFPD Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie novels; Every Move She Makes, Fatal Truth, Deadly Legacy, and Cold Case. Her second series, about a forensic artist for the FBI, Sydney Fitzpatrick, debuted in Nov 2008 with Face of a Killer. The newest in the series, The Bone Chamber, released in Dec 2009.
www.robinburcell.com
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
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| Door Prize |
| Robin has donated a copy of "The Bone Chamber". This will be awarded to a lucky chatter during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible!
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