It's not a real party until somebody calls the cops.

Natalie Rozanski has it all: a terrific job, a long list of friends, and a Rolodex that the mayor would kill for, but it's her fortieth birthday, and darn it, she shouldn't have to work even if it is the firm's chance to snag a lucrative investment banking deal.

Yet instead of a birthday cake, she gets clients fighting, a house fire, and her boss's body at the bottom of the staircase.

Now the cops are watching her, everyone's secrets are being exposed, and somebody is trying to arrange for Natalie's next party to be a wake...