Dark humour, amateur detection and increasingly complicated cover-ups define Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan series. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It introduces a struggling novelist and single mother who is mistaken for a contract killer after a conversation about her crime manuscript is overheard. Her attempt to escape the misunderstanding only draws her into real danger, assisted by her friend and nanny Vero. Later books deepen the pair's involvement with criminals, police and absurdly escalating schemes. Cosimano's prose is fast, comic and suspenseful, balancing domestic chaos with crime plotting. The series sits most naturally across humorous mystery, amateur sleuth and contemporary crime. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the essential starting point because the friendship, accidental criminal reputation and recurring complications all begin there. Read more Less