Barbara D'Amato
Autore di Hard Luck
Sull'Autore
Barbara D'Amato is a playwright, novelist, and crime researcher. She was born in Michigan. D'Amato held jobs as a carpenter on magic shows, assistant surgical orderly, assistant to a wild animal act, stage manager, and legal researcher. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime International and mostra altro serves on the board of the Mystery Writers of America. D'Amato wrote a children's musical, The Magic of Young Houdini, and two musical comedies for adults. She was nominated for the Anthony award for her novel On My Honor and was the runner-up for the Nero Wolfe Award for the novel Hard Women. The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery won the Anthony and Agatha Awards for Best True Crime and was used as the basis for a segment on the TV show, Unsolved Mysteries. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: David Lasker
Serie
Opere di Barbara D'Amato
Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series) (2000) 6 copie
The Conqueror Worm 1 copia
Steak Tartare 1 copia
The Lower Wacker Hilton 1 copia
Opere correlate
Malice Domestic 5: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1996) — Collaboratore — 80 copie
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Collaboratore — 45 copie
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Black, Malacai
- Data di nascita
- 1938
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Michigan, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Michigan, USA (birth)
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Relazioni
- D'Amato, Brian (son)
- Agente
- Deborah Schneider (Gelfman Schneider)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 21
- Utenti
- 1,021
- Popolarità
- #25,226
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 80
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
A few years later, Brenda and Grant have started a security company and have a mission to track down terrorists. When they find evidence by trolling chat rooms and the deep web, they try to pass the information along to authorities who can do something about their finds with varying degrees of success.
Sarah, an old college friend of Brenda's gives her a call one day to set up an appointment but, before they can meet, she dies in what looks like a street accident. Having a bit of the friend's point of view, we know that she was pushed into traffic by a man she just met. Brenda, who hasn't seen her since college, wonders why Sarah, who works for a software development company, wanted to meet with her.
Brenda and Daniel are also approached by a man from the government who gives his name as Allen Cooper who works for NSAA and wants to hire their firm for some security work. They are hesitant because they don't like working for the government but the money is too good to pass up. Coop begins to make a play for Brenda by asking her out and taking her to expensive places but Brenda's heart is still with the fiance she lost on 9/11.
Coop asks them to look into a new vote tallying program that will be used in the next presidential election which is only days away. It looks to be a really tight race between the incombent President Kierkstra, a corrupt politician from South Dakota, who took office when the President died of a heart attack and Governor Evan Harkinnon. Meanwhile, Brenda is still puzzled about Sarah's death and sends memo to all of her offices to see if anyone knows more about her. She hears from her office in Egypt that Sarah has some concerns about an election program she was working on but then the office goes silent.
Daniel flies out to see what is going on in Egypt and the story takes a James Bond twist as he becomes the target of unknown assassins and has to wend his way back home facing all sorts of danger and gathering data along the way.
The story was exciting and fast-paced. The villains were larger than life but our smart computer security experts are a match for them. I enjoyed the characters in this one and would recommend it to those who read thrillers.… (altro)