Barbara D’Amato
Barbara D’Amato is an author best known for writing the Cat Marsala Mystery series, the Figueroa and Bennis series, and the Dr. Gerritt Degraaf Mystery series. She has won numerous awards in her career including the first annual Mary Higgins Clark Award, the 1998 Carl Sandburg Award for Excellence in Fiction and the 1999 Readers Choice Award for Best Police Procedural.