Elle Cosimano's novel about all the joys and tribulations of motherhood is an irresistibly entertaining read with a snappy style and crazy wit.

Finlay Donovan is a single and mentally exhausted mother of two, who is also a writer struggling with deadlines. His life is a total mess. She is making absolutely no progress with her agent's promised book, her ex-husband fired the assistant babysitter without question, and her four-year-old daughter is forced to take her hair tied to her head to kindergarten as a result of a very unfortunate first attempt at a haircut.

Finlay's growing problems are not helped by the fact that during his business lunch with his agent, the people sitting at the next table overhear his planned crime story and mistake him for an assassin. And Finlay, to his own astonishment, says yes to the invitation to take care of an unpleasant husband. Because you have to live on something.

Of course, in real life it is not nearly as easy to commit a normal crime as it is in the pages of a novel, and in anticipation - so that nothing is easy - Finlay becomes irrevocably involved in the events of a very real murder investigation.