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Kathy M. Umbricht Straka, writing as K.M. Umbricht, is a life-long resident of Connecticut. Right out of college she apprenticed at the Yale Co-Op, the largest independent bookstore between New York and Boston where she learned that booksellers could be publishers, too. While in library she worked in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, then as a secretary in the Office of Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti. Upon graduating, Kathy worked as a Reference Librarian, New Haven Free Public Library, and corporate library manager, Research Analyst, SNET Information Technology Research Center. After the SNET merger with SBC Communications, she trained as a competitive intelligence professional. Kathy founded Black Crow Press LLC . As a member of Sisters in Crime she is pursuing a life-long ambition to write and successfully publish mysteries. She lives on a glacial lake in woodsy Connecticut.