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Barbara D'Amato

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born

January 01, 1938 in The United States

website

http://www.barbaradamato.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Aka Malacai Black

Barbara D'Amato has had a checkered career, working in the distant past as an assistant surgical orderly, carpenter for stage magic illusions, assistant tiger handler, stage manager, researcher for attorneys in criminal cases, and recently sometimes teaching mystery writing to Chicago police officers.

"Writing is the greatest job of all," D'Amato says. "I get to hang around with cops, go ask people questions about their jobs that I would be too chicken to ask without a reason, and walk around Chicago looking for good murder locales. Best of all, I get to read mystery and suspense novels and call it keeping up with the field."

She was the 1999-2000 president of Mystery Writers of America. D'Amato is also a past president of Si...more

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Books by Barbara D'Amato

Average rating: 3.52 · 1,360 ratings · 192 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Hard Tack: A Cat Marsala Mystery 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Other Eyes 3.11 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Death of a Thousand Cuts 3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hard Evidence 3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hard Luck: A Cat Marsala Mystery 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Foolproof by Barbara D'Amato, Jeanne M. Dams, Mark Richard Zubro 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hard Women: A Cat Marsala Mystery 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hard Christmas 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Killer.App 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hardball (Cat Marsala Mystery, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating: