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 Amanda Lamb is a professional television journalist, author, and mother. Amanda writes in two completely different genres: one about her life at home, and one that mirrors the life of a hard news reporter.
She is also a veteran crime reporter for an award-winning CBS television station in the Southeast, WRAL, and writes a regular online column called Dispatches from a Reporter’s Notebook about life behind the scenes of a crime reporter. She also writes a parenting blog for WRAL.com every Monday called "Go Ask Mom"
In her nearly twenty years as a professional journalist, Amanda has developed a reputation as the go-to reporter for networks seeking credible feedback and interviews on high-profile murder cases in the southeast. She makes regular appearances on CBS, FOX News, CNN, truTV, and on the Oxygen network.
In March, 2009, she was a consulting producer for the CBS program 48 Hours. The episode featured the Eric Miller murder case, also the subject of Amanda's most recent book, Deadly Dose.
In June 2008, Amanda published her second book, Deadly Dose: The Untold Story of a Homicide Investigator's Crusade for Truth and Justice (The Berkley Group, a division of Penguin Putnam), a true crime about a young, promising scientist who is poisoned with arsenic by his scientist wife.
In August 2007, Amanda published her first book, Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years (Globe Pequot), a collection of irreverent anecdotal humorous essays about being a working mother in the twenty-first century. This book landed her an appearance on the Today Show.
In 2005, Amanda’s writing was featured in This Day in the Life. Her candid, touching chapter opens the powerful, critically acclaimed ensemble of diaries from thirty-four women across the country.
A native of Philadelphia, she now makes her home in North Carolina with her husband and two little girls.
Amanda graduated with degrees in English and psychology from Duke University and obtained her masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Her next true crime book, Evil Next Door, is scheduled to be published by the Berkley Group April 6, 2010. She is also working on a third true crime book with the same publisher which is expected to hit stores in early 2011, and a sequel to Smotherhood called Girls Gone Child.
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