President Joe Biden’s nominee for archivist of the United States is also a prolific writer of political murder mysteries starring a congressional aide-turned-sleuth.
Colleen Shogan, who currently serves as the senior vice president and director of the David M. Rubenstein Center for White House History at the White House Historical Association, has also authored eight mysteries in her “Washington Whodunit” series. Biden announced her as his nominee to head the National Archives and Records Administration on Aug. 3.
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The synopsis of the first book in the series, Stabbing in the Senate, reads: “Life is good for Kit Marshall. She’s a staffer in D.C. for a popular senator, and she lives with an adoring beagle and a brainy boyfriend with a trust fund. Then, one morning, Kit arrives at the office early and finds her boss, Senator Langsford, impaled by a stainless steel replica of an Army attack helicopter. Panicked, she pulls the weapon out of his chest and instantly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.”
The series follows Kit as her congressional jobs bring her close to suspicious, alliterative deaths in subsequent novels including Homicide in the House, K Street Killing, and Gore in the Garden.
No word yet on if Attack in the Archives will make the ninth volume in the series after her confirmation.
If confirmed, Shogan will replace acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall, who has headed the agency since David Ferriero retired in April. The Senate has not yet set a date for her confirmation hearing. Early in her career, Shogan worked as a Senate policy staffer and afterward worked for the Library of Congress for more than 10 years. She holds a doctorate from Yale University in political science.
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NARA has been a major player in the standoff between former President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice regarding classified records allegedly being kept at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Ferriero sent a letter to Congress in February that said files NARA removed from the residence contained classified information, and the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago Monday allegedly came after a tip that Trump was still in possession of classified files from his time in the White House.
