i enjoyed it. prenant former profiler and washed up reporter take on redneck town and bring it to justice, what's not to like. Knowing it was from the creator of Deadpool, I actually expected even more
humor, but there was some there and a welll laid out, if perhaps a bit hard to believe plot ( )

I admit it, I bought the book solely on the title.
I have never seen the movie Deadpool, so I was not at all aware of this writer.
This book is 3 things:
Not politically correct
Very funny
An amazingly well written mystery.
What an excellent book! ( )

4.5 Stars

That was honestly such an entertaining murder mystery with two main characters that absolutely deserve a series. The social issues made for tricky reading at times because Fabian certainly tackles homomisia and racism within our communities, both in a historical context and in the present day, in a confronting but thought provoking way. This sounds pretty heavy but it was written by the co-creator of Deadpool so it was also irreverently funny. "57 week" pregnant mother, Andie, was so single-minded in her determination to act according to who she is and not who her husband expects to be that she ended up making some questionable parenting choices whilst dragging her kids along in the pursuit of justice. Kenneth, former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist now disgraced reporter for the local rag, was also such a brilliantly written character.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and will definitely be reading book 2.

CW: racially motivated murder, racist slurs, anti-lgbtqia slurs, racism, police brutality, dismemberment on page, suicidal ideation ( )

This was a very enjoyable read, and I can't help wondering what might come next. After all, the hero is a NJ housewife with 3 or 4 kids, and just about ready to produce another, so how will she have time to do any more detective work. In fact, that might be the saddest part of the story, because she is questioning her love for her husband and stuck raising kids instead of doing what she most wants to do, which is solving crimes. Or it would be the saddest part if some innocent people had not died for very bad reasons, none of which was their fault.

The story starts off on a pretty humorous track, with said pregnant housewife's baby girl peeing all over a crime scene at a gas station when all they wanted was to use a restroom - fast. There was more humor mixed in, but also some pretty serious stuff, with racial hatred, killings, and people getting caught up in things they did not want to be in. It was an interesting story, although the ending was a bit messy. But you'll have to read the book to learn more about that.

EDIT: I forgot to add that I thought this was reminiscent of The Thursday Murder Club series, by [a:Richard Osman|6173710|Richard Osman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1635981852p2/6173710.jpg], a favorite of mine. Both have an experienced dominant woman leading a group of amateurs. ( )

A really great novel with off the wall protagonists - a small town journalist and a seven month pregnant former FBI profiler witha nose for crime solving. When not taking care of her other four kids or driving her husband to his mass transit connection to his job she is busy solving a fifty year old murder as well as a current one that she stumbles on at a convenience store, They will unearth a lot of trouble for long standing power brokers in the towm. A really great first novel. ( )