Brazen, candid, and always willing to take chances, the unnamed and not entirely trustworthy narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz celebrates her birthday with three old and dear friends. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married couple and her best friends from college. The third, Wes, was once her lover. Organizing a luncheon at Boston's esteemed Ritz Carlton--an old favorite of the group's--the narrator expects the occasion will be an excellent...