Barbara Seranella, creator of the “Munch” Mancini mystery series, has died
by sernabad
Mystery lovers have lost one of the genre's most original voices. Barbara Seranella, creator of the eight-book series featuring “Munch” Mancini, died January 21 in Ohio while awaiting a liver transplant.
Ms. Seranella’s complicated, troubled anti-hero P.I., “Munch” Mancini, is an ex-con prostitute who fled her dreadful past to pull her life together as a Brentwood mechanic. Munch’s first appearance was in No Human Involved. The last entry, An Unacceptable Death, was published last year.
Ms. Seranella, whose last book, Deadman’s Switch, will be published posthumously in April, was 50.
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