Barbara D'Amato


Barbara D'Amato is an American mystery author and winner of the Agatha and Anthony Award. She also features in Great Women Mystery Writers.

Biography

She was born Barbara Steketee, the daughter of the owner of the department store Steketee's. She studied at Cornell University but left to marry Anthony D'Amato in 1958. Anthony became a law school professor and Barbara later completed her bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1971, followed by a master's. They have two sons Brian and Paul, and live in Chicago.
She began writing full-time in 1973, first co-writing plays with her husband. After trying different genres her first published novel in 1980 was a mystery. She won the Agatha and Anthony Award for a non-fiction work, based on a case her husband worked on in 1984. The book led to the reopening of the case and eventual pardon and release of Branion. In 1999, she served as President of the Mystery Writers of America.

Gerritt De Graaf series

  1. The Hands of Healing Murder
  2. The Eyes on Utopia Murders

    Cat Marsala series

  3. Hardball
  4. Hard Tack
  5. Hard Luck
  6. Hard Women
  7. Hard Case
  8. Hard Christmas
  9. Hard Bargain
  10. Hard Evidence
  11. Hard Road

    Figueroa and Bennis series

  12. Killer.app
  13. Good Cop, Bad Cop
  14. Help Me Please
  15. Authorized Personnel Only
  16. Death of a Thousand Cuts

    Other novels

Non fiction