Last Updated on July 22, 2018
I’ve never read any of her work, but from the outpouring of tributes that have appeared since her untimely passing last week from end-stage liver disease, Barbara Seranella may well be worth a trip to the bookstore.
She wrote crime novels whose sleuth was Munch Mancini, a female auto mechanic. Well, that’s different! In the great spirit of writing what you know, Seranella entered the field of writing after working a career as, you guessed it, an auto mechanic. Since she became a fulltime writer more than a decade ago, she has published ten novels.
Her next book, Deadman’s Switch, is being released in April.
For more about her and the impact she has had on fellow writers, visit tributes by Tod Goldberg, James Winter, Sarah Weinman, and M.J. Rose.