If Finlay can juggle a jealous ex-husband, two precocious kids, her mother’s marital issues, a decomposing loan shark, and find Vero’s missing boyfriend, she might get out of Atlantic City in one piece. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun is an edge-of-your-seat, fun, fast-paced, laugh-out-loud, sexy and smart novel. Finn tells the handsome bartender, Julian Baker, that her name is Theresa and she is a real-estate agent; Julian flirts with her and gives her his number.

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And rewriting it: “The greatest piece of writing advice I’ve learned during my career came from my very wise literary agent, Sarah Davies. Finlay hit that sweet spot between a hilarious, impulsive character who keeps rushing into things and someone you can actually relate to and root for. When Finlay’s ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome passengers along for the ride. One might assume that through his relationships with correctional officers, police, lawyers, politicians, and convicts, and through the stories I heard about them growing up, I would come away with very concrete understandings of right and wrong, or good and bad people.

Thank you so much to the publisher, Minotaur Books, for providing me with a copy to read and review.

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That night, Finn meets Julian at the bar and tells him the whole story; she spends the night at his apartment and goes to meet Patricia in the morning, only to find Irina. Finn wonders whether Harris’s killer had a personal agenda; she remembers the women on Harris’s phone and connects it to the money, realizing Harris had been extorting them. Either way I’m glad she got to indirectly show her ex two different men were vying for her attention! She leaves Harris in her minivan in the garage but comes back to find the garage door shut and Harris dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Part screwball comedy, part morality tale, the amusing Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is also a tale about parenting, bad divorces, reinventing oneself, rising above misery and, well, becoming a hit woman.If you love thrillers, but wish the genre would lighten up a little then you absolutely must read Finlay Donovan Is Killing It. As mothers, our identities are constantly reforming around our roles as wives, mothers, and caretakers. They follow a storyline in which each book picks up where the last one left off, and the first chapters of the second and third books recap the preceding book.