Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line
A Novel
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- $329.00
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- $329.00
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In development to be a major TV series on Peacock, adapted by Tina Fey and Lang Fisher
From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line—the highly anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series.
"Finlay Donovan is irresistible!"—Janet Evanovich
“This series is magical!”—Christina Lauren
“The perfect blend of mystery and rom-com.”—Ali Hazelwood
Motherhood is messy. So is covering for your partner in crime.
Life hasn’t been easy for Finlay Donovan lately, but it just got a whole lot harder. Her nanny and partner-in-crime, Vero, has been extradited from Virginia to Maryland, where she’s facing criminal charges for a theft she swears she didn’t commit. A prisoner to an ankle bracelet as she awaits her trial, Vero is forced to live with her overbearing mother and nosy aunt. Threatening messages keep arriving on her mother’s door, demanding Vero “turn over the money . . . or else.” And if she doesn’t figure out who really stole her former sorority’s treasury funds, her next home might be a prison cell.
But proving her innocence might be an impossible feat. Vero was the treasurer of her sorority when the money went missing—one of the only people who had access to the cash. And her alibi is a date who ghosted her. With her court date quickly approaching, and her mysterious stalker on her tail, Vero needs to clear her name fast.
Finlay decides a trip to Maryland is in order. After all, Vero stood by her through her darkest moments, and Finlay will be damned if she lets her best friend and children’s nanny be convicted for something she didn’t do. She sets off on a mission to suss out the real thief and bring Vero home.
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Cosimano's madcap sixth adventure for mystery writer and divorced mom Finlay Donovan (after Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave) finds the frazzled series heroine trying to clear Vero, her nanny and trusted friend, of bogus theft charges. At the outset, Vero is under house arrest in Maryland as she awaits trial for stealing from her old sorority. Though Vero did squirrel away cash for the organization by hosting clandestine poker games as a senior, she swears she's not responsible for the money's disappearance. For her part, Finlay believes Vero ("Vero and I had both broken plenty of laws in the short time we'd known each other," she muses, "but stealing from her former sorority house hadn't been one of them"), so when the 20-something receives threatening letters at her family home, Finlay heads to Maryland to investigate. As the women seek ways to circumvent Vero's ankle monitor, Finlay's boyfriend, hunky police detective Nicholas Anthony, steps in to take care of Finlay's two precocious kids back in Virginia. Cosimano keeps the tone freewheeling and funny, though the sheer volume of red herrings and colorful supporting characters threatens to overwhelm. Still, this is a raucous good time.
