''Impressive'' Financial Times ''Terrific'' Guardian''Elegant'' Laura SheppersonBy night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan''s sharpest literary critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By day, she uses work, sex and psychotropic drugs to keep her comfortably numb. Desperate for a promotion and at the urging of her editor, she agrees to an interview with David Adler, an enigmatic graduate student. When he disappears, Vivian soon learns from his devastated fiancée that she was the last person to have seen him alive. The police refuse to investigate his disappearance while Vivian has to know the truth. But behind the curtains of her apartment, Vivian begins to unravel. Because what happens if no one believes her when she plays the detective?