Gritty glamour in 1980s New York City doesn’t come cheap. To afford even her fifth-floor walkup, Rose Leary needs a gig. Bartending at a neighborhood joint subsidizes her writing career, even if she does fill a dead woman’s platforms. Rose speculates about who killed her predecessor, but her novel’s looming deadline demands her attention. When another bartender dies, Rose pictures her name scrawled at the top of the murderer’s hit list. Frightening phone calls and ominous gifts soon turns everyone she meets into a suspect Rose struggles to expose the killer in a desperate race to save herself and her work. Set in the West Village restaurant and bar scene, where fishmongers and greengrocers fill the stores now colonized by designers, this mystery is written with wit, intelligence, and a distinctive style, creating an intoxicating signature cocktail.