Maureen Anne Jennings to Appear at Rockland Public Library in Rockland, ME

Join Maureen Anne Jennings at the Rockland Public Library on May 1, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. for a talk and signing of Bartender Wanted and One Too Many, the first books in The Rose Leary Mystery Series.

EVENT LOCATION: 
Rockland Public Library
80 Union St.
Rockland, ME 04841

Books and ebooks will able available to purchase at the event.

About Bartender Wanted:

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.

About One Too Many:

Rose Leary writes murder mysteries, but she never wants to see another real corpse. She tends bar to buy time to write in 1980s New York City, until her gruesome discovery of a murdered colleague derails those plans. As threats escalate, Rose fears for her next novel, her safety, and even her trust in Detective Frank Butler.

Work lurches into chaos as inexperienced new bosses mismanage the restaurant, making accusations and blame seem like daily specials. Questions about guilt and innocence contaminate more than the crime scene, while jealousy and suspicion swirl in the oppressive August air. Nothing feels safe. She won’t survive unless she can outwit the murderer and find the weapon. Written with wit, intelligence, and a distinctive style, One Too Many serves another round of Maureen Anne Jennings’s signature mix of humor, murder, and suspense. And cocktails.

About Maureen Anne Jennings:

Maureen Anne Jennings has worn the hats of a journalist, copywriter, editor, publishing consultant, media manager, book festival director, and Fillmore East staffer. She owns more than 100 hats, not all of them work related. The Rose Leary Series of mysteries includes Bartender Wanted and One Too Many. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Traveler’s Tales Italy, Cartwheels on the Faultline, and Saltwater Sweetwater, as well as in various periodicals. After the obligatory waitressing in college, she squandered a few years behind the bar at various dives in lower Manhattan. She also owned and operated a pub in northern California. Be careful what you write about. She graduated from Fordham University summa cum laude in comparative literature and still reads as many novels as she possibly can. Words are her life.