Brooklyn-born-and-bred Angie DaVito, the feisty producer of TV's "Bright Tomorrow," knew that the network's Daytime vice president, Gregg Whitehall, had few fans. She'd even had serious run-ins of her own with him. But despite his having so many enemies, Angie never expected Gregg's dead body to turn up on her set: cold and naked save for the single clue of a strategically placed gold-lame rose. Suspects abound, most of them cast and crew of "Bright Tomorrow." So with more at stake than the beat cops assigned to the case can fathom, Angie begins to untangle a web of intrigue spinning back into her past. Along the way, she forges a strong partnership with the female detective assigned to the case. And she resolves once and for all her feelings for an old lover: the head writer of the show, who left her for someone considerably younger, blonder, and dimmer.
A network executive with a knack for making enemies is found dead on the set of Bright Tomorrow. Nearly everyone, from star to stagehand, has a motive for killing him. With ratings at stake, it's up to TV producer-turned-sleuth Angie DaVito to figure out who in the cast or crew was pushed far enough to commit murder.