Kathryn O'Sullivan writes the Colleen McCabe Mystery Series which started in June 2013 and is set in North Carolina. It features fire chief Colleen McCabe and the Spanish mustangs of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the 1st book in this series, Foul Play, Colleen McCabe is enjoying an uneventful summer supervising her firefighters, making rounds with her Border collie Sparky, and keeping an eye on the wild horses escaped from the local sanctuary. But when a dead body washes up on shore, she knows trouble has arrived in Corolla.