Barbara Venkataraman

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Author Barbara Venkataraman

Biography

Barbara is an attorney and author of the award-winning Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery series, as well as Teatime with Mrs. Grammar Person, If You'd Just Listened to Me in the First Place, The Fight for Magicallus, Quirky Essays for Quirky People, A Smidge of Crazy, and A Year of Shorts: Flash Fiction. Her books have won numerous awards including Indie Book of the Day, First Place in the 2016 Chanticleer Murder & Mayhem Mystery Writing Competition, Gold Medal in the Readers’ Favorite Contest for Memoir, and Two-time Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards. She also co-authored Accidental Activist: Justice for the Groveland Four with her son Josh about his successful four-year quest to obtain posthumous pardons for The Groveland Four.

In The Blog

Free Mystery Books

New Cozy Mysteries

Free Mystery Books For Nook

Free Cozy Mysteries

Bibliography

Teatime With Mrs. Grammar Person

Accidental Activist

If You'd Just Listened To Me In The First Place...

Quirky Essays for Quirky People: The Complete Collection

Duck For Cover & Other Tales

Five Fortunes

The Fight for Magicallus

Quirky Essays for Quirky People Series

I'm Not Talking About You, Of Course...

A Trip to the Hardware Store & Other Calamities

A Smidge Of Crazy

Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries

Death By Didgeridoo

The Case Of The Killer Divorce

Peril In The Park

Engaged In Danger

Jeopardy In July

Malice In Miami