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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: the most hilarious murder-mystery heroine of all time! (The Finlay Donovan Series Book 1)

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trigger + content warnings: mention of cheating in past, blood, abusive relationships, drugging attempt, mention of stalking, mention of sexual assault + rape, mention of taking photos without consent, mention of blackmail, very brief mention of trafficking, maybe a very brief mention of cancer ("the big c"), hurt/abandoned dog. There is a stressed out mom/author, a nanny, an ex-husband with a new fiance, a snoopy neighbor peering out her window on neighborhood watch duty, a murder for hire contract and a murder ( Whoopsie)! Then while meeting her literary agent at Panera, the woman next to them (Patricia Mickler) started eavesdropping on their conversation and she misinterprets what Finlay and her agent were discussing. Though she’s tempted by the money—and curious about the potential victims—she never actually commits any of the murders herself.

And if to make things worse, Finlay starts writing a novel about what happened with them, and it sells a massive advance for two books once she sends it to her editor. The genius of it is knowing what’s going to happen generally but not even seeing the HOW coming from a mile away. Making matters worse, on the morning of a very important meeting with her agent, to discuss her barely existent new novel, Finlay discovers her ex-hubby has also fired their nanny.She’s a mother of two young kids, and author who sold her first novel and has burned through the first half of her advance, and her husband is lowkey making the threats against her because she is unable to pay the house payments. On top of it, Guy had conned the judge into taking half of my advance for my last book and giving it to Theresa, as recompense for the damage I’d done to her car. I could picture him at their spotless kitchen table in her immaculate designer town house over a mug of French-pressed coffee, pulling out what was left of his hair. Finlay catches the attention of two very different potential romantic partners: Detective Nick Anthony and bartender/law student Julian Baker. From the empty dining room, I watched Delia twirl what was left of her hair around a sticky red finger.

Someone sitting close enough to overhear the conversation believes Finlay is describing a real murder.If you are behind deadline, maybe you need to establish a daily minimum word count instead of accepting a contract killing position?

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. Unfortunately, getting out of this unwanted job proves much harder than getting into it, especially when it involves some very shady, powerful people.If she doesn't deliver a new book, her suspense writing dream is over and she will lose her kids for sure. It gets me outside of my comfort zone when it comes to the kind of books that I read, and because I have such particular taste most of the time, I end up living inside of a bubble when it comes to books. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

You never want to be the asshole that leaves a message promising to kill someone for being late, only to find out they've already been murdered. My agent was already on a train from Grand Central to Union Station, where I was supposed to meet her for a brunch reservation at a restaurant I couldn’t afford so we could discuss exactly how overdue I was on my deadline for a book I had started three times and probably would never finish because … Jesus, look around me. How does Finlay’s relationship to her motherhood (and especially single-motherhood) play out throughout the novel? Finlay is a struggling suspense novelist whose life is going down the tubes in about every single way.

In chapter 32, Julian recites a quote inspired by the principles of Hanlon’s razor: “Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. How would your feelings about Finlay have changed if she had killed Harris Mickler or Andrei Borovkov? Deftly balancing genre conventions with sly, tongue-in-cheek comments on motherhood and femininity, Cosimano crafts a deliciously twisted tale that will earn her a slew of adult fans. Her babysitter, Vero, walks in while she’s hunched over the man’s body, and that ends up creating an unlikely partnership between the two because Vero is lowkey bribed with the money to keep quiet. There's not much I can say that hasn't been said before, so I will just say it was a super unrealistic but fun read.

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