Barbara D'Amato appears to be just hitting her stridea vigorous, stylish stride that's attracting wide?spread attention and admiration. The Drood Review of Mystery 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 doesnt 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 healingand Cat's next tour could be of the morgue...