What follows is a series of events that snowballs on Finn. She’ll need an acceptable dress to wear…so maybe she’ll borrow one of the husband-stealer’s LBDs and wear a blonde wig that makes her resemble the husband-stealer and give the husband-stealer’s name at the bar. Maybe she’ll just go check him out in person at the swanky bar the note said he’d be at later. Maybe she’ll do it from laptop of the husband-stealing woman about to become the stepmother to her children. She’s not going to call…but maybe she’ll look him up to see what’s so bad about him that his wife would want him dead. Not even when she imagines how many diapers $50K could buy. Overheard at lunch with her agent, a woman married to an abusive husband slips Finlay a note to “take care of” him for her for $50,000. And now he wants the kids! She’s maxed out on everything, the bills are piling up and the cherry on top is that she’s so late on her book that her editor is threatening to cancel the contract and she’ll have to find a way to repay her advance. To rub salt in the wound, his sod farm has made it big, thanks to his fiancé’s real estate contacts, and now he’s flush with cash while the mother of his children is struggling to keep the lights on. Not only did her cad of a husband have the audacity to cheat on her, but when he left her, he took everything he wanted from the house, proposed to his fling, and moved in with her. She’s having just about the worst luck ever. This book was an absolute delight! I admit that it is my first cozy mystery, but I’m solidly sold on the genre if it’s like this book.

She soon discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation.įast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moments, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from award-winning Elle Cosimano. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet. A stressed-out single mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. Triggers: divorce, off-stage physical abuse, murderįinlay Donovan is killing it…except, she’s really not.

Genre(s): Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Mystery, Cozy Mysteryīuy on Amazon: Barnes & Noble, Book Depository

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