Finlay’s approach to her problems may be questionable, but her predicaments as a single mom and struggling author are very relevant and make you feel really connected to her.
This book-within-a-book approach is interesting and makes everything believable even if not relatable. She is sick of piling bills, her ex-husband’s threats: how can she concentrate on her job and write a best-selling crime novel? But what if she accepts an offer that could not only solve her financial crisis but it also turned her life more dangerous than the books she has written? Her fiction may or may not be inspired by events in her own life. We’re introduced to a fresh, lovely character: A struggling, broke, drowning in debt, single mom, and suspense novelist Finlay Donovan.
I was swept away in a world of mystery where Finlay and her former nanny/accomplice are only just beginning with their antics and bad decisions. Soon, Finlay 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 moment, this is a brilliant new book from YA Edgar Award nominee 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. She’s 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.
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