Cindy Amrhein is the county historian for Wyoming County, New York. She wrote her first book, Bread & Butter: The Murders of Polly Frisch (2000), with her good friend Ellen Lea Bachorski. From 2004 to 2006 Cindy was a weekly columnist for a Native American newspaper in northern New York State, the Akwesasne Phoenix, under the pen name HistorySleuth. When she's not doing land research in the clerk's office or writing historical true crime, you can find her plotting out murder mysteries.