Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice: A Novel

Elle Cosimano

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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice—the fiercely anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series.

“Finlay Donovan is irresistible!”—Janet Evanovich

Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are—seeing as it’s actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero’s childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car—it won’t be all fun and games. When Finlay’s ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome passengers along for the ride.

Within hours of arriving in their seedy casino hotel, it becomes clear their rescue mission is going to be a bust. Javi’s kidnapper, Marco, refuses to negotiate, demanding payment in full in exchange for Javi’s life. But that’s not all—he insists on knowing the whereabouts of his missing nephew, Ike, who mysteriously disappeared. Unable to confess what really happened to Ike, Finlay and Vero are forced to come up with a new plan: sleuth out the location of Javi and the Aston Martin, then steal them both back.

But when they sneak into the loan shark’s suite to search for clues, they find more than they bargained for—Marco's already dead. They don’t have a clue who murdered him, only that they themselves have a very convincing motive. Then four members of the police department unexpectedly show up in town, also looking for Ike—and after Finlay's night with hot cop Nick at the police academy, he’s a little too eager to keep her close to his side.

If Finlay can juggle a jealous ex-husband, two precocious kids, her mother’s marital issues, a decomposing loan shark, and find Vero’s missing boyfriend, she might get out of Atlantic City in one piece. But will she fold under the pressure and come clean about the things she’s done, or be forced to double down?

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Jananie
• May 21 2024

Hello loves! I hope you’re having a great week 💛

We’re mid way through March and I seriously can’t believe that we’re almost a ¼ done with 2024 😱I feel like every year I’m so pumped in January and then the year slowly creeps up on me until I don’t know where all the time went.

Regardless, I wanted to give you an update on all the things going on with me! I know content has been a little sporadic and I’ll talk about why a little bit here.

What’s going on with me:

My Fulltime job! So while I did get promoted (yay! 🥳), I’ve also been slammed with work and I’ve been working late at the office almost everyday. We have a launch coming up soon so it’s all hands on deck and I’ve been slowly losing my mind over all the little things that keep coming up. I don’t know about the rest of you but I tend to get irritated over the smallest things at work when in normal life I would hardly care 😂 Overall, I’m just waiting until I get through the next month and I then I swear I’m going to disappear into the abyss and not come out until summer lol.

Chronic illness and mental illness sucks. So while I’ve been taking a lot of new meds prescribed by both my specialist and my naturopath (it’s like 25 pills a day, I’m not even exaggerating lol), I’m still struggling with my health at least a couple days out of the week which tends to just suck the energy out of me. To top it off—I’m still trying to find the right dose of my bipolar meds to keep me stable and the current increase has got me super tired all day. I’ve been struggling to wake up on my own and I experience a lot of brain fog in the mornings. I know I’ll adjust to the dose in due time but for now it kinda sucks.

Another element to this is that I need to reach a stable dose of my bipolar meds before I can start my ADHD meds again and the past month has been a serious struggle with my ADHD symptoms—the biggest victim being my reading. Sitting down to read a book let alone a manuscript for Bindery has been really freakin hard. Audiobooks are as always a saving grace for me but unfortunately it’s not always possible to find, borrow, or buy one for the books I need to read.

All of this just makes me think about barriers for people living with disability and chronic illness and it’s a bit wild to me that I had never really given any of this much thought until I was the one in this position. This is all just to say that you never know what someone might be going through even they seem to be putting on a happy front on social media or in public.

What I’m working on this week:

I have a couple sponsorship deadlines coming soon so I’m going to be working on a couple videos this weekend including my Spring TBR, my March wrapup, and hopefully a vlog as well.

What I’m currently reading:

Currently reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler! This one is a bit different from Kindred which I absolutely loved. It’s a bit of a dystopian with a vaguely slow plot. It gives me The Last of Us vibes if you’ve seen that show. I’m still not sure what I think of it but if you want to join along with me to read it then you should definitely join my book club on Fable!

I also just finished Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano—the fourth book in the Finlay Donovan series—and I absolutely loved it! I always have so much fun with these books and they’re the perfect mix of mystery, comedy, and romance.

That’s all from me for today! Hope you’re all doing well! Let me know how you’re all doing, what you’re up to, and what you’re reading <3