Finlay Donovan is killing it / Elle Cosimano.

By:

Cosimano, Elle

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cosimano, Elle. Finlay Donovan series ; 1.Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Minotaur Books Trade Paperback editionDescription: 373 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781250830449
1250830443

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813/.6 23

Summary: As a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay Donovan finds her life in chaos. 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. She soon becomes tangled in a murder investigation.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC COSIMANO	Checked out	pap ed.	10/02/2023	36748002538793

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It.

A USA Today bestseller!
One of Suspense Magazine 's "Best Thrillers of 2021"
One of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021
Nominated for the Left Coast Crime 2022 Lefty Award for the Best Humorous Mystery

"Finlay Donovan is irresistible!"--Janet Evanovich

Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she's really not. 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.

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 . . . 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.

Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moment, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from YA Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano.

"A mystery"--Cover.

Includes discussion questions [361-363].

Includes a sneak peek of Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead ([365]-373).

As a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay Donovan finds her life in chaos. 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. She soon becomes tangled in a murder investigation.

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Kirkus Book Review

A suburban Virginia divorcée struggles with that classic dilemma: What should she do when she's offered a fat paycheck to kill a complete stranger? Struggling romantic suspense novelist Finlay Donovan doesn't think much of her ex-husband, Steven, who's been nickel-and-diming her ever since she dumped him over his affair with Theresa Hall, the realtor who's since become his fiancee. So she's not entirely surprised when Patricia Mickler, overhearing her chatting with her agent in the local Panera about her latest work in progress, indicates that her own husband is even worse. He's a blackmailer and serial rapist who's beaten his wife repeatedly. What stuns Finn is the way Patricia communicates her hatred for her husband: She offers Finn $50,000 to kill him. Of course Finn has no intention of going through with this harebrained scheme, but a series of unlikely miscues ends with Harris Mickler dead in her garage with every indication that she's murdered him. The only bright spots are that Veronica, the accounting-student nanny Steven just laid off without warning Finn in advance, comes upon the scene ready and eager to help and that Steven owns a sod farm where the conspirators can bury the body without telling him. Everything seems to have worked out improbably well until Finn, who really does need the money, is offered an even bigger purse for killing someone else considerably more savvy and dangerous. YA specialist Cosimano cuts dexterously between Finn's adventures as a hit woman, her deeply iffy romance with Fairfax County Detective Nicholas Anthony, and the domestic crises that keep on piling up as if nothing had ever happened to disturb them. Suspenseful, funny, and even a tad mysterious. More, please. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.