My relationship with Panera was complicated. Too many books that feature woman/woman friendships don’t offer a fleshed-out view at that relationship, but Finlay Donovan really lets us see women supporting each other, going to bat for one another, and working together to make each other’s lives better, and it’s incredible. Their banter is so funny and authentic, and Vero herself is the best supporting character I’ve read in a long time. Perhaps the best part of this book for me, aside from how much I loved Finn by herself, is the incredible friendship between Finn and Vero and how delightful they are together. “Because nothing screams innocent like a rotting corpse in three thousand feet of Cling Wrap!” She’s absolutely hilarious and so endearing from start to finish, and as a mother of a young child myself, the way her love for her kids jumps off of every page won me over right off the bat. She doesn’t have it together, she’s totally frazzled half the time, and she’s getting by on not much more than her dedicated love for her kids, sheer luck, and some spite. My Google search history alone was probably enough to put me on a government watch list.ĭespite being thrown into the most ridiculously outlandish scenarios one after another, Finn is one of the most relatable characters I’ve ever met in my life. I don’t read a lot of mystery books, but it’s a genre I’ve been wanting to read more from, so when I saw my entire bookstagram feed seem to collectively lose it over the release of the second book in this series, I had to see what the hype was about – and I’m so happy that I did, because this was easily one of my favorite reads of the year so far.

It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by 8:30AM on any given morning. You know a book is good when the final page makes you whisper-shout to yourself, “Oh my fucking GOD!” 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. 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. TITLE: Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)įinlay Donovan is killing it…except, she’s really not.

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