In novels like Hard Luck and Hard Women, award-winner Barbara D'Amato has thrilled audiences with the exploits of her journalist-turned-sleuth, Cat Marsala, who always squeezes life out of a deadly situation. Now comes Cat's most dangerous assignment, a truly Hard Case mixing medicine, mayhem, and murder...

Cat figures on some quick bucks doing a feature on the life-and-death drama of one of Chicago's largest trauma centers. What she doesn’t figure on is finding the director dead in the staff lounge, a lump of gauze stuck in her throat. Now Cat's story has a whole new slant. Not every staff member is dedicated to healing—and Cat's next tour could be of the morgue...

Praise for Barbara D'Amato

"Barbara D'Amato appears to be just hitting her stride—a vigorous, stylish stride that's attracting widespread attention and admiration."
—The Drood Review of Mystery

"D'Amato's evocation of the trauma center, its desperate patients and harried personnel, often heroic and always human, is by itself worth the price of admission."
—San Diego Union-Tribune

"Producers of TV's Chicago Hope and ER could do worse than buy—never steal!—an idea or two from Hard Case."
—Chicago Tribune

"One-ups Ellery Queen’s excellent The Dutch Shoe Mystery."
—Chicago Sun-Times

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