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Rose Leary tends bar in 1980s New York City to subsidize her writing career. Someone keeps killing women at her job, and Rose suspects she's next. Despite official warnings to leave sleuthing to the pros, she struggles to find the murderer in a desperate race to save herself and her work. Smart and stubborn Rose brings her sharp wit to the search, defying her fear with dark humor. And cocktails.
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Reader Review
Author Maureen Anne Jennings has created a narrator of such charm and wit I'd follow her anywhere—including places where very bad things happen. Jennings's vivid descriptions of New York City are often humorous and always evocative. What Chandler did for 1940s Los Angeles, Maureen Anne Jennings does for 1980s New York.
—Susan Z. Bono author of What Have We Here: Essays
Reader Review
I like her sass, her hood, her style, her angst.
—Susan Swartz, author of Juicy Tomatoes
Reader Review
The action is brisk and the dialogue smart and funny. I'll take my place in line to read the next book in the Rose Leary series.
—Robin Beeman, author of The Lost Art of Desire
