Librarian on the run!

Once a brainy but naive PhD candidate quoting Shakespeare, Donne and Baudelaire with ease, the librarian we know as Cam Baker, Juliette Gregory, Sonia Sutton or Dana Kane is on the run, forced to trust Witness Protection to keep her alive as she jumps from one alias to another.

Always just a step ahead of her ruthless ex and his cartel henchmen, Cam must hide her intelligence and education, accepting menial jobs that will let her stay on the down-low, experiencing the best and worst of the human condition along the way. From her first placement in Billings, Montana to a homeless encampment on the streets of L.A., Cam – now sarcastic, streetwise, and thoroughly disillusioned – solves murders but repeatedly blows her cover, confounding her WITSEC handlers and the charismatic police detective who tries to befriend her.

Named three times among the “Best Mystery Stories of the Year,” these tales, many of which first appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, will have you checking the backseat and behind the shower curtain as Cam’s erudite, intellectual persona slips away and a cynical, world-weary woman takes charge of her own life – nearly losing it in the process.

Bonus for Ellery Queen fans: this collection includes two new, never-before-published stories from the early days of the “librarian on the run!”