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3.5 stars rounded up

This is a fun, humorous book that was better than I though it would be given that the premise was completely unbelievable. One doesn't read books like this because they are plausible, so in order for me to like then the humour has to work well and the characters be likable. Both of these are in this book and I enjoyed it a great deal. It's 3.5 stars because I didn't laugh out loud, but of course that's not unusual for me when I read; it takes a lot for me to laugh out loud while reading. I liked it enough that I have already finished the sequel (review to follow another day, and whether or not I liked it as much/better/less than this one will wait until then.) It's yet another book featuring a writer, so that didn't help my rating even though it's what starts the whole ball rolling.

Finlay Donovan is asked to kill a woman's husband, which naturally she doesn't want to do. However, she needs cash and decides to go where he'll be--for reasons you can read in the book, but it wasn't to kill him--when she finds out (view spoiler)[he just put a roofie in a woman's drink while he's in the bathroom (hide spoiler)] (this is a minor spoiler, but for those who like no spoilers at all I put it there) and this is how she ends up getting involved with him disappearing and then embroiled in a murder mystery all the while trying to fend of her ex-husband's divorce lawyer's aggressive tactics and her ex-husband's fiancée, avoid the mafia and other things. Throw in a hot law student and a hot cop (so tired of love triangles I can't even begin to describe it, so you can see that if I still rounded it up to 4 it must have some things going for it!) plus a fiesty nanny and two kids--the four year old is quite a character--and it's a fun read.