Barbara Seranella (April 30, 1956 – January 21, 2007) was an American

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Early life

Seranella was born in

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and then grew up in Pacific Palisades. She left what could have been an idyllic childhood to run away at 13 to seek adventure. She hitchhiked to

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and joined a

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commune. While there she learned auto mechanics on the street (she liked to hang out with guys who had cars). Seranella married Walter Haring in spring of 1982. He was the father of Michera Nicole Colella (DOB March 4, 1982). Seranella raised Michera as her own, often picking up the slack where Michera's biological mother's addiction paired with Walt's psychological instability left Seranella to pick up the pieces. Not wanting to create a wedge between two sisters being raised by a single mother with two different fathers, Seranella made the decision to take in Maryann Colella as well and raise her as her own too, just to avoid the confusion of separating the two girls. In the worst of the girls' mother's addiction, Seranella would come to bring clean pillowcases and basic food supplies even years after her divorce from Michera's biological father.

Books

*''No Human Involved'' (1997) *''No Offense Intended'' (1999) *''Unwanted Company'' (2000) *''Unfinished Business'' (2001) *''No Man Standing'' (2002) *''Unpaid Dues'' (2003) *''Unwilling Accomplice'' (2004) *''An Unacceptable Death'' (2005) *''Deadman's Switch'' (2007)

Death

She had homes in

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and

Laguna Beach, California Laguna Beach (; ''Laguna'', Spanish language, Spanish for "Lagoon") is a city in Orange County, California, United States. Located in Southern California along the Pacific Ocean, this seaside resort city has a mild year-round climate, scenic c ...

."Seranella, Barbara."
''Contemporary Authors''. Gale. 2004. Seranella died January 21, 2007, in

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. She was waiting for a

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transplant to cure her

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References

External links

Official Site

Amazon

Notes on a Survivor: 2000 Interview w/Barbara Seranella
Deaths from liver disease 1956 births 2007 deaths Writers from Santa Monica, California People from La Quinta, California People from Laguna Beach, California Anthony Award winners American women novelists American women mystery writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers Novelists from California 21st-century American women {{US-novelist-1950s-stub