Amber Hunt

Who is Amber Hunt?

Amber Hunt is a journalist and true crime author. After covering local news at small papers in Iowa and Michigan, Hunt was hired at the Detroit Free Press, where she covered crime for nearly eight years. In 2005, she won the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. In 2007 and 2008, she appeared on NBC's Dateline program, first in an episode called "The Valentine's Day Mystery" and then in "Disappearance at the Dairy Queen"

Hunt's first true crime book was Dead But Not Forgotten, released in August 2010, which examined the 1990 murder of Barbara George, a 32-year-old mother of two whose husband Michael was arrested in 2007 for the suburban Detroit shooting. Hunt's book, released prior to Michael George's second trial in the case, was accused of undermining the prosecution's key witness. In Hunt's acknowledgments, she dedicated the book to her mother, who she wrote died of cancer when she was 12.

In 2011, Hunt was named a Knight-Wallace Fellow, a prestigious mid-career journalism fellowship. The same year, she was nominated as a Livingston Young Journalist for a series of stories written in 2010 about crime in the streets of Detroit. In August 2011, Hunt's second true crime book All-American Murder was released. The book covered the alleged beating death of Yeardley Love, whose on-again, off-again boyfriend George Huguely V was charged in Love's May 2010 death. She was set to have two non-fiction book releases in 2014: "See How Much You Love Me," a true-crime account about the 2011 murders of Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, who were bludgeoned to death by their 17-year-old son, Tyler Hadley, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and a book on the Kennedy family wives, co-written with David Batcher.