A USA Today Bestseller!
A March 2024 LibraryReads Pick (Hall of Fame)
One of CrimeReads’s Best Crime Novels of 2024
“Cosimano’s fourth Finlay Donovan novel is brilliantly plotted, bringing the witty humor and thrilling, nail-biting action the series is known for while also tackling emotional family dynamics. Cosimano knocks this one out of the park. Highly recommended for all fans of the series.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Cosimano nails the tone—breezy but not too fluffy—and maintains a breakneck pace throughout. Readers who prefer their mysteries to lean madcap will eat this up.”—Publishers Weekly
“Another rollicking round of high-speed felonies for mystery author Finlay Donovan and those unwary enough to get pulled into her orbit... perfect escapist fare.”—Kirkus Reviews
“The Finlay Donovan series is simply spectacular and always delightful! I adore everything about it—the humor, the screwball plotlines, the mysteries, and above all the cast: the friendship between Vero and Finlay is one for the ages, and Finlay’s love life entertains me to no end. Elle Cosimano’s books are the perfect blend of mystery and romcom, and I’m ready to follow Finlay wherever she goes!”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis
“Refreshing, funny and bright, these are wonderfully escapist novels.”—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“The story that unfolds is a hysterical runaway train of impossible situations careening off the tracks as the twists and turns keep coming page after page. Plan on reading straight through as there’s no more chance of you pausing reading than there is a prayer of stopping the train wreck happening on page.”—Mystery & Suspense
“Fast action and clever wit course through Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice, the fourth installment in a wildly fun mystery series by Elle Cosimano . . . [Cosimano] ups the ante, once again keeping readers laughing all the way through a maze of well-plotted danger.”—Shelf Awareness
“This is a wild ride that barely gives the reader time to breathe . . . This story bangs off one wall and then the other, travels at break-neck speed, and is laugh-out-loud funny. You will love Finlay. Highly recommended.”—DP Lyle, MD
2023-12-06
Another rollicking round of high-speed felonies for mystery author Finlay Donovan and those unwary enough to get pulled into her orbit.
The opening challenge is terse and to the point. “You have seventy-two hours to pay back what you owe,” reads a note stuck under the windshield wiper of a van abandoned by Finn’s friend Javi. But nothing ever follows a straight line in Finn’s life. Since Javi owes $200,000 to loan shark Marco Toscano, Finn and Vero Ramirez, her resourceful nanny, read the note as a ransom demand and set out to find Javi and somehow raise the funds to repay Toscano. Their journey takes them—together with Finn’s two children, her mother, and Steven, her ex-husband (don’t ask)—from Virginia to Atlantic City on a trip that carefully avoids Maryland, where there’s a warrant out against Vero. They don’t find Javi, but the trip isn’t a total loss: They stumble upon two dead bodies in a hotel room, one of them Marco’s. Even though that discovery renders Javi’s debt moot, news of a flash drive containing information about how to access $14 million in cryptocurrency brings Finn up against two of her old antagonists, Russian mobster Feliks Zhirov, who’s escaped from prison just in time to join the festivities, and Ekatarina Rybakov, his star attorney, who in some ways is even more dangerous than him. As usual, Finn compensates for her limitations as a sleuth by her unexcelled ability to improvise, turning the most dangerous situations into set-up lines for droll payoffs.
Perfect escapist fare for stay-at-home readers who wonder why nothing ever happens to them.
