Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder biography." In 1980, she admitted to "The New York Times" that she had "created scenes or dialogue I think it reasonable and fair to assume could have taken place, perhaps even did." Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder is a 1977 book by Lacey Fosburgh about the murder of Roseann Quinn, a young New York City schoolteacher who reportedly led a "double life" and was murdered in 1973. Fosburgh appropriated the title of Judith Rossner's "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", the acclaimed best-selling novel which had been published two
Judith Rossner exploration of the intimate, complex connections between food and emotion..." Rossner published her last novel, "Perfidia" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), in 1997 to extraordinary reviews. "Pefidia" (which means "treachery" in Spanish) was, like "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", inspired by a real-life murder. A "chilling" story of an abusive mother and the daughter who kills her, the novel is "a scorching portrait of attachment and loss." Hailed as "[r]elentless, suspenseful, and absolutely captivating," "Perfidia" is a novel which "burns hypnotically." In 2002, Rossner married educational publisher Stanley Leff, with whom she had begun a relationship in 1985. Rossner died from complications of