Barbara D'Amato, Author Forge $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-86563-4
Young children as victims of violence are becoming a clich of psychological thrillers, but for those who haven't tired of the plot device, there's plenty to like in D'Amato's (Good Cop, Bad Cop) latest. The author of the popular Cat Marsala series...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Forge $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86562-7
An authoritative, engrossing mix of politics, police work and family jealousy, D'Amato's second Chicago-based novel (after the well-received Killer.app) takes an intriguing spin on the notorious 1969 Chicago police raid on the Black Panthers, which...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Forge $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85991-6
Computer-phobia strikes again in this competent but very busy, and not very imaginative, conspiracy yarn from the author of the Cat Marasala mystery series (Hard Case, 1994, etc.). Just like Sandra Bullock in the hit film The Net, Chicago computer...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (258p) ISBN 978-0-684-19686-2
Detection becomes secondary-and tedious-in this latest Cat Marsala story, which seems less a mystery than a paean to doctors involved in emergency care. At a Chicago hospital to write a story on its trauma center, free-lance journalist Cat has...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19564-3
D'Amato turns in another excellent Cat Marsala mystery (after Hard Luck ) despite the tension-destroying, flash-forward opening in which free-lance journalist Cat finds prostitute Sandra Lupica, her houseguest, dead in the alley behind her apartment
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Noble Press Inc $20.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-879360-13-6
In 1967 Donna Banion, wife of a wealthy black Chicago obstetrician/gynecologist, was murdered in their apartment. Mystery novelist D'Amato ( Hardball ) has done an outstanding job of re-creating the era and locale to explain what happened and why....
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19408-0
Chicago freelance journalist Cat Marsala, in her third outing here (after Hardball and Hard Tack ), watches the story of her career land--literally--in front of her when Jack Sligh, an Illinois lottery official, plummets to his death from a...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19299-4
Chicago journalist-sleuth Catherine ``Cat'' Marsala , who scored well her first time around (in Hardball ), proves her mettle in her second appearance. On assignment to ``see how the other half lives,'' Cat, who's afraid of water and can't swim, is...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86564-1
HDon't read this book with your back to the cellar door! Although this third in the Suze Figueroa series starts out as a Chicago police procedural, the mood grows eerie as the pages fly by. Officer Figueroa and her partner, Norm Bennis, are handling
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-83354-5
A marvelously grisly premise kicks off D'Amato's (Hard Bargain, etc.) new mystery featuring Chicago food writer Cat Marsala: Cat finds that the soup bone she purchased earlier from Spencer and Angelotti, a pricey food emporium, is actually part of a
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Barbara D'Amato, Author . Scribner $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0095-0
You're off to see the wizard in this delightful Oz-themed mystery, the ninth in the Cat Marsala series (Hard Evidence, etc.) from Anthony and Agatha award-winner D'Amato. As freelance journalist Cat is squiring her young nephew, Jeremy,...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $21 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-83353-8
Investigative reporter Cat Marsala has a love-hate relationship with the top cops in the scandal-plagued Chicago police department, but as this speedy and intriguing mystery graphically illustrates, she's more than a match for them. Local newspapers
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $19.5 (282p) ISBN 978-0-684-19687-9
Chicago freelance reporter Cat Marsala (last seen in Hard Case) pilots her old Bronco up into rural Michigan and finds murder among the family about whom she'd chosen to write a wholesome puff piece about Christmas-tree farming. She spends...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Noble Press Inc $11.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-879360-28-0
Mystery novelist D'Amato's outstanding portrayal of the wealthy black Chicago obstetrician John Banion, in her view wrongly convicted in 1967 for the murder of his wife. (Feb.)
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Barbara D'Amato, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-684-19140-9
This informative, at times lengthily polemical mystery by the author of Hands of Healing Murders airs the question of drug legalization and introduces a gutsy, fast-thinking heroine. Catherine Marsala (Cat), a Chicago freelance journalist, is caught
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Barbara D'Amato, Forge, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2606-5
In this scattered stand-alone from D'Amato, her first thriller since 2004's Death of a Thousand Cuts, Blue Eriksen, a controversial anthropologist at Northwestern University, believes psilocybin, the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms,...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author . Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0345-5
Set in Chicago during the heat wave of 1995, D'Amato's absorbing new stand-alone (after 2002's White Male Infant
) draws the reader into the uncomfortable and strange world of autistic children. Hawthorne House, a mansion that was once...
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Barbara D'Amato, Author . Forge $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0024-9
This versatile author has always had the ability to raise goose bumps (Authorized Personnel Only; Good Cop, Bad Cop; etc.), but in this stand-alone thriller she makes our spines absolutely tingle. What began as an uncomplicated adoption of a Russian
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Barbara D'Amato, Author, Jeanne M. Dams, Author, Mark Richard Zubro, Author Forge $24.99 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2266-1
Mystery authors D’Amato, Dams and Zubro try their hand at a thriller with less than stellar results. After 9/11, Brenda Grant and Daniel Henderson, who worked in the World Trade Center’s north tower but were in a nearby coffee shop when...
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Sara Paretsky, Author, Barbara D'Amato, Author, Max Allan Collins, Author . Bleak House $27.95 (456p) ISBN 978-1-932557-50-3
This classy anthology of mostly original short stories from 21 renowned Windy City authors blends the blues, crime and Chicago, quite surpassing Akashic’s recent Chicago Noir
. Several series heroes make appearances, including Sara ParetskyR
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