Hard Case

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