Aileen G. Baron

As an archaeologist, Aileen G. Baron taught in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, and conducted fieldwork in the Middle East, including a year at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem as an NEH scholar, and director of the overseas CSU program at the Hebrew University, and is currently the president of the Orange County chapter of Sisters in Crime. Her mysteries in the Lily Sampson series, feature an American archaeologist working in the Middle East during World War II. The latest in the series are The Scorpion’s Bite??and The Torch of Tangier. The Gold of Thrace????is a contemporary mystery, the first of a series about the intrigue and deceit in the antiquities trade, and feature archaeologist Tamar Saticoy.