By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Former FBI Agent Jerri Williams couldn’t shake the feeling that she wanted to be a writer and share her stories about fighting crime on a podcast.
The podcasts became so popular last week that they ended up No. 1 on the coveted “new and noteworthy” list on iTunes, CBS Philadelphia reports.
“I was shocked. I have no idea why they selected my podcast but I am so grateful,” Williams said.
After joining the FBI in 1982, Williams left her job in 2008 and began working a the chief spokeswoman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Then last summer, she left that job to answer her calling – be be a full-time writer.
She wrote a book, “Play to Play,” about a female FBI agent pursuing corruption in the strip club industry in Philadelphia.
“I thought, this needs to be a book and so I wrote one,” Williams said with a smile.
Williams is already working on her second novel, one inspired by a Philadelphia Ponzi scheme from the 1990s.
