Trey Gowdy’s move into fiction is more than a career twist; it’s a return to the world that shaped him. After years inside real courtrooms, facing real killers and shattered families, he’s now channeling that emotional weight into story. The Color of Death follows Assistant District Attorney Colm Truesdale, a man wrecked by personal loss and forced back into the fire when a young salon owner is found murdered and her world literally burned.

As the investigation exposes a powerful judge and his family, the novel becomes less about a puzzle and more about the cost of justice on the human soul. Co-written with bestselling thriller author Christopher Greyson, the book marks FOX News Books’ first foray into fiction, blending Gowdy’s prosecutorial scars with Greyson’s storytelling instincts. For readers, it’s an invitation into the darkness Gowdy says he never really left.