Day 10 of 30 Day Reading Challenge – Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan Series 1)

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

Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moments.

Wow…I didn’t expect this book to be really good!

Finlay Donovan’s life is almost falling apart. She is suffering from writer’s block, her husband has moved on with a woman named Theresa and is fighting for the custody of her two children. So while at Panera, while Finlay is discussing about the plot of her suspense novel with her literary agent, a woman overhears her conversation and mistakes Finlay as some contract killer. And Finlay realizes that solving real-life murder cases, when it involves a Russian mob is not as easy as fictional cases.

Initially, the first part was slightly boring but then soon, it became fast-paced and witty. Fin is such a lovely and funny character and she and Vero, the nanny who was fired by Finlay’s ex-husband make a good pair of solving the murder cases let alone getting entangled in one! The writing was really great and I was immediately hooked into the book despite the first chapter being a bit boring. There were some funny moments in the book which will make you laugh out loud that literally you will cry with tears! Finlay became one of my favorite characters and overall, I couldn’t wait to see what the ending was and actually enjoyed the reading! This is the first book of the Finlay Donovan series and so I cannot wait to read more books from this series!