This is definitely one of those plots that could have been solved or avoided by “why didn’t you just tell the truth right at the beginning,” but as people don’t always do that in real life, and fiction would be much duller if they did, I was able to suspend that bit of disbelief and thoroughly enjoy the wild ride that Elle Cosimano takes us on in this novel. Finlay Donovan is no murderer - but she is in over her head, in a twisty series of events that’s more fun for the reader to untangle than it is for Finlay. Things get more complicated when she meets her supposed target and discovers he is not only genuinely scumbag who deserves to die, but that he has ties to the Russian mob and a lot of people besides his wife want him dead.
Our hapless and overwhelmed heroine is, of course, not a professional hit person, and has no intention of killing anyone - even though she could really use the money. When a stranger in a cafe overheard Finlay’s conversation with her agent, she mistakes the hapless writer for a contract killer - and tries to hire Finlay to get rid of an unwanted husband. Such is the fate of Finlay Donovan, a not-particularly-successful writer who is trying to keep her career afloat while dealing with two small children, her ex-husband and his new wife, and a chronic lack of funds. and she soon discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart.This is a somewhat light-hearted fantasy - at least, as light-hearted as a book about murder ever gets - playing around with the ever-popular premise that it would be easy to mistake a murder mystery writer for an actual murderer, given the grisly nature of their conversations and internet searches. When Finlay’s overheard discussing the plot of her new 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.
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. "Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It, a deliciously witty adult debut-the first in a brilliant new series from YA Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano.įINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT. Did he get what he deserved when Fin switched the Rohypnol drug and he ended up with it 2. He drugged his victims and then blackmailed them. Harris Mickler was a bad guy and a predator. "Angela Dawe's narration makes YA author Elle Cosimano's debut novel for grown-ups a wild and funny romp.Dawe offers Cosimano's laugh-out-loud moments with just the right sparkle." - AudioFile Magazine ApFinlay Donovan Is Killing It Book Club Discussion Questions Read synopsis here. #28 in Bestselling Mystery & Thriller Audiobooks
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