Hard Case
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher 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...
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...
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Detection becomes secondary-and tedious-in this latest Cat Marsala story, which seems less a mystery than a paean to doctors involved in emergency care. At a Chicago hospital to write a story on its trauma center, free-lance journalist Cat has barely learned her way around the unit when she finds Dr. Hannah Grant, its new director, dead in the staff lounge, suffocated by gauze stuck down her throat with a tongue depressor. Det. Sgt. Robert Hightower, though annoyed by Cat's desire to help with the case, is clearly not bright enough to solve it alone, so Cat chats with members of the medical team to determine motive and opportunity. In a busy trauma section, it is difficult to establish who was where and when; D'Amato, author of last year's estimable Hard Women, has a disappointingly colorless Cat drag readers through the dreary details of staff comings and goings until it is difficult to care who murdered Grant. By the time another doctor is killed, the story is beyond resuscitation. Maybe in her next adventure Cat will land on all four feet.
