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.