With so many attendees, staff, and servers, Eve has her work cut out determining who committed murder in the middle of the crowd—and what was their motivation. They bring him into Central, blubbering on the elevator, where a cop asks what his problem is, and Eve replies, "Love. All of that being said, I very much enjoyed my visit to Dallas and Roarke’s 2060s New York City, this isn’t the book I’d put in someone’s hands if I wanted to get them hooked on the series. It’s almost midnight, so Eve texts Peabody to let her know they are going to Brooklyn in the morning to interview the nephew before they put Debra back in Interview and she and Roarke go to bed.

This is the fifty-sixth book in the In Death Eve Dallas series and I have read all of them up to this point. A famous actor raises a glass of champagne as a toast to his wife, takes a sip and crashes to the ground. Peabody contacts two of the people who sent Debra money; one is an actor whose last vid Debra Bernstein was an extra in (he lost a grandson to addiction and they bonded over that), and the other is somebody Bernstein dated in Vegas.Vera says she’s been so upset (delayed reaction to Brant’s death) she took the day off from work, canceling shooting for the first time in her life, and she’s going have to say sweet things about Eliza now that she’s the tragic figure, and that galls.

Eve tells him not to look but her partner has a stunner pointed at him, and when he looks at Peabody, Eve tells him, "Told you not to look. Lane can’t think of anybody who wanted to kill either of them (halfway through the interview she realizes since it was her drink that was poisoned, she was probably the intended victim).The characters are well-crafted and the continuing back-story of friends and family is like catching up with old friends.

Lane visited Brant’s body earlier, along with Sylvie, Lin, and Dolby, and says it still doesn’t seem real. At 18 years old, she took over on opening night of a new musical, Upstage, after the suicide of Leah Rose, the lead playing the part of Marcie Bright.She says she needs it as much as the rest of the cast and crew, that they’ve already put in so much time, so much work, and she doesn’t believe any of them had anything to do with Brant’s murder. She says she didn’t wish him dead, just that he had been caught with his pants down around his ankles and his cock in some ingénue, but that won’t happen now. Lane says she couldn’t be sure Brant would drink it, and Peabody says “sure enough” and walks through the rest of the scenario – she flushes the container in the bathroom when Dr. Roarke tells Eve that Furrier wrote the lyrics to a song they danced to at their wedding, Only One, so they reminisce, leading to them making love to the song playing. It can be as simple as realizing that if you’re running late you need to text that person that you’ll miss dinner to understanding that you have to be present for things that are important to them and in all cases very much vice versa.