A DAY IN THE LIFE

Does anybody care about a dead hooker? That's the question Chicago journalist Cat Marsala is wrestling with. The hooker, Sandra Love, is sleeping on Cat's couch in exchange for the inside scoop on life as a prostitute. Now she's dead in a gutter outside Cat's building and nobody seems to be in a hurry to solve the crime.

Except Cat. Digging into the netherworld of prostitution, from the streetwalkers who trade sex for food, to the enormously high-priced independents, Cat's search for a killer takes her deep into the motives and motivations of hard women—and men—on both sides of a dirty game.

Praise for Barbara D'Amato

"Cat Marsala is the character I've been waiting for since the death of John D. MacDonald... This is a knockout series, and Hard Women, from its poignant question of a first sentence to its brilliant ending, is the best Marsala yet."
—Eugene Izzi, author of Tribal Secrets (Hard Women)

"Cat is as likable as she is clever."
—Publishers Weekly

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