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 reflects the life of a hard news reporter who covers high-profile murder cases.
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 writes a parenting blog for WRAL.com every Monday called Go Ask Mom .
In her more than twenty years as a professional journalist, Amanda has developed a reputation as the go-to reporter for networks seeking credible feedback and interviews on murder cases garnering national in the southeast. She has made regular appearances on CBS, FOX News, CNN, truTV, Discovery Investigates and on the Oxygen network.
Her newest book, Love Lies, is about a domestic murder case she covered as a reporter for WRAL. It is set to be released December 6, 2011 and features the story of Nancy Cooper, a young mother strangled by her husband and discarded in the woods near her suburban North Carolina home.
Amanda's most recent parenting humor book, Girls Gone Child, was published in early 2011 and is available online. The collection of funny, self-deprecating, tender essays takes the reader on an insightful journey into the complexities of raising young children in an every-changing chaotic world.
Amanda released her second true crime book in 2010; Evil Next Door, chronicles a three-year investigation by Raleigh police into the rape and murder of a young woman. The case ends with a dramatic game of cat and mouse between the police and a man who just might be a serial killer.
In June 2008, Amanda published her second book, Deadly Dose, a true crime story about a young, promising scientist who is poisoned with arsenic by his scientist wife.
In March, 2009, she was a consulting producer for the CBS's 48 Hours, which prepisode featured the Eric Miller murder case, the subject of Deadly Dose.
In August 2007, Amanda published her first book, Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years, 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.
She is also working on an inspirational parenting book called I Love You to God and Back from Thomas Nelson expected to be published in the spring of 2012.
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