Diese Serie begleitet eine gestresste alleinerziehende Mutter und erfolglose Romanautorin, deren Leben eine urkomisch chaotische Wendung nimmt, als sie für eine Auftragsmörderin gehalten wird. Aus finanzieller Notwendigkeit und mit scharfem Witz stolpert sie in die Welt des Verbrechens und navigiert durch Mordermittlungen und die chaotischen Realitäten der Mutterschaft. Die Bücher verbinden meisterhaft Spannung, urkomischen Humor und echtes Herz und feiern die Triumphe und Frustrationen der Elternschaft mit authentischem Flair. Die Leser werden die temporeiche Handlung und die Reise der unvergesslichen Protagonistin durch unerwartete Gefahren und persönliches Wachstum genießen.
"Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano's adult debut Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations.."--
Finlay Donovan - single mum, floundering crime writer and accidental hit-woman - is, once again, struggling to finish her crime novel. Ever since someone misinterpreted her talking about her new book, she has been busier than ever working as a hit-woman and taking on the life she usually reserves for her characters. On the bright side, the only dead body she's dealt with lately is that of her daughter's pet goldfish. On the not-so-bright side, someone wants her ex-husband dead. And saving him is going to send her down a rabbit hole of soccer moms disguised as hit-women, with a little more involvement with the Russian mob than she'd like. With her book deadline looming, and an ex-husband to keep alive, Finlay is quickly coming to the end of her rope. She can only hope there isn't a noose at the end of it...