Isabella Maldonado

Isabella Maldonado is an award-winning author, retired police captain, and regular contributor on News Channel 12 as a law enforcement expert. Her last police position was Commander of Special Investigations and Forensics. During her career, she was a hostage negotiator, department spokesperson, and precinct commander supervising over one hundred and fifty personnel including patrol officers, detectives, specialty units, first-line supervisors, and civilians. She was selected to attend...See more

Isabella Maldonado is an award-winning author, retired police captain, and regular contributor on News Channel 12 as a law enforcement expert. Her last police position was Commander of Special Investigations and Forensics. During her career, she was a hostage negotiator, department spokesperson, and precinct commander supervising over one hundred and fifty personnel including patrol officers, detectives, specialty units, first-line supervisors, and civilians. She was selected to attend executive management training at the FBI National Academy in Quantico. The first Latina to attain the rank of captain in her department, she received Meritorious Service and Lifesaving Awards. Isabella is a past president of the Phoenix Metro chapter of Sisters in Crime. She has written several books, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and was named one of the twenty-five best suspense books of 2018 by Book Riot. See less