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Barbara D'Amato


Born
in The United States
January 01, 1938

Website

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


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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Average rating: 3.58 · 2,226 ratings · 293 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors
The Doctor, The Murder, The...
3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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Hardball (Cat Marsala Myste...
3.62 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1989 — 15 editions
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Hard Tack: A Cat Marsala My...
3.77 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Killer.App
3.49 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Hard Christmas
3.72 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
3.53 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Hard Evidence
3.73 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Hard Women: A Cat Marsala M...
3.52 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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Hard Luck: A Cat Marsala My...
3.63 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions
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Other Eyes
3.11 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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