Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This mystery introduces Cat Marsala, a Chicago freelance writer who specializes in personality profiles. When she is hurt in the bomb-killing of a pro-drug legalization activist she was trying to interview, Cat resolves to keep digging at the story until the killer is uncovered. D'Amato tries hard for a light and sassy tone and sometimes achieves it, but parts of the novel read more like a drug legalization tract. There is nothing subtle about the plotting either, which poses the obvious questions of why, if the reader was so quick to catch on, it took Cat so long. But should readers make it to the end, they will be rewarded with a genuinely chilling scene that will make the most anemic reader's blood pressure rise. One can only ask why she left her best writing for last." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)