{"product_id":"2940151009867","title":"Hard Case","description":"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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCat 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Barbara D'Amato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barbara D'Amato appears to be just hitting her stride--a vigorous, stylish stride that's attracting widespread attention and admiration.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Drood Review of Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Diego Union-Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Producers of TV's Chicago Hope and ER could do worse than buy--never steal!--an idea or two from Hard Case.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One-ups Ellery Queen's excellent The Dutch Shoe Mystery.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chicago Sun-Times","brand":"Speaking Volumes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176930066672,"sku":"2940151009867","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151009867_p0.jpg?v=1763757800","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151009867","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}