Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Very Murdery Neighborhood

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano

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If we know one thing by now that Finlay Donovan is really good at, it’s digging a grave. Who’s it going to be this time? Mrs. Haggerty, nosy neighbor extraordinaire and self-appointed president of the neighborhood watch, is in trouble. A body has been discovered in her backyard and she’s been taken in for questioning. Finlay and Vero settle in for a nice relaxing time of minding their own business. But when all the evidence starts pointing at her ex-husband Steven, it’s a race for […]

A Caper That Fell Flat

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

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Finley Donovan is a struggling single mother of two. Her jerk of an ex-husband is busy building the perfect life with his fiancee (and affair partner) and judging every mistake Finlay makes. Money is tight, he’s just fired the nanny, and Finlay is months behind on her overdue novel – and she’s already spent the advance. Finlay is overheard discussing the book – a murder mystery featuring an assassin – with her agent, and is mistaken for a contract killer herself. A desperate wife offers […]

Time to start putting this one to bed.

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) by Elle Cosimano

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We’re definitely experiencing diminishing returns with this series, but I’m still enjoying myself. I think I’m ready for it to have a definitive ending, though. I don’t want the author to beat this horse to death just because we keep buying the books out of remembered affection for how crazy good we thought book one was. To be honest, I no longer remember most of the details of the plot of this book. Finlay and Vero have to find out who EasyClean is (the hit […]

not for me, but ymmv!

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

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Sigh I think I wanted to like this one more than I ended up actually liking it. It didn’t engross me enough to compel me to keep reading, but it was a nice change of pace. I think there’s something about cavalier murder of exhaustion or neglect that is off-putting to me. To be clear, in my real life I find all murder, of any form, off-putting! FBI agent, please disregard these musing and/or note that they are, in fact, about fiction– https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2… Well, moving […]

“He really does have very nice biscuits.”

Finlay Donovan Knockes 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2) by Elle Cosimano

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I love this series. I’m so happy there will be at least two more books full of wacky hijinks, dead body disposal, panicking over money, BFF frandship moments between Finlay and Vero, meta commentary, and I’m sure stuff I can’t even predict because this series is chaos. Beautiful chaos. Finlay Donovan, romantic suspense and crime author, keeps getting herself into these situations involving real life crime. It’s been several months since the first book, and it seems this time around, someone has taken a hit […]

too light, too predictable, and also kind of too straight

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

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I’d been reading a lot of heavy stuff lately, so I decided to break up that rhythm with something a little on the lighter side. Cue the audiobook of the first installment of Elle Cosimano’s new series, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It. It’s a pretty straightforward mistaken identity comedic romantic suspense novel, in which a single mom writer of, yes, romantic suspense novels gets mistaken for a contract killer and gets hired to bump off a woman’s husband who, as it turns out, is a […]



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