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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

Elle Cosimano

Start date: September 1, 2023

Finish date: September 30, 2023

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Why we're reading this: Tied for winner of September 2023 Moderator Recommends poll.
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What Members Thought

Dec 25, 2024 Christina rated it really liked it

I am excited to have started the Finlay Donovan series. What a riot!

Finlay is never not “ on-the-go.” No waiting for the plot to pick up or reading through paragraphs of minutiae here! Every chapter leaves you racing to find out what happens next.

The plot was original ( to be mistaken for a hitman) and Vero as her partner in crime makes a perfect duo. Add in two lively kids that are naively dragged along and it makes for a good comedy, murder mystery!

I hope to read them all before the newest o ...more

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Sep 28, 2021 Kim Kaso rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own, women-of-mystery-finished, 5000-2021-lor, wom2021, ladies-60-2021

4.5 stars Read this book in no time flat, even while reading 2 other books, I flew through it. Finlay, Vero, and all their assorted family, friends, frenemies, & enemies are engaging, and the plot moves right along. It is a wild & fun ride and just what I needed to shake me out of the doldrums the real world continues to cause. Very highly recommended, thanks Women of Mystery for choosing it for a September read!

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Sep 23, 2023 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: found-a-new-home, fiction

I was in the mood to read something fun, something to distract me at least temporarily. (Of course, most books do distract me to varying degrees.) I asked my new friend at the Collective Bookstore in Verona what I should read to distract me from my empty nest blues. This book was the ticket. The main character, Finlay Donovan, a mom of two little ones and a struggling murder mystery writer, was forced into an awkward situation and needed to solve an actual murder. Let's just say Finn was the que ...more

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