

I’ll never turn down a take-out menu, and Vero and I never met a dessert we didn’t like. I would say my bathroom, but there is no safe or sacred place once you’ve become a mother.Īny meal I don’t have to make. No amount of wine (or murder) could make this situation tolerable.Īnywhere I can find five minutes alone. Which means my philandering ex-husband is now my landlord.

Now, Steven owns the house and rents it to me. The children and I live in the two-story Colonial-style home my ex-husband, Steven, and I bought through the realtor he later left me for. Also (apparently) too many spurned wives and mafia crime lords. We have too much traffic, too many stores, and too many rich politicians. I live in South Riding, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. Because if there’s one thing I cannot seem to do right now is to keep anything alive. My children have a goldfish named Christopher. As it turns out, that level of trust is pretty essential when you’re committing multiple felonies together. She might be the only person in my life who has never once doubted me. But once you’ve buried a body with someone, that sort of changes everything, so now I’d have to say my children’s nanny, my housemate, and my pseudo-accountant, Vero. If you’d asked me a few months ago, I probably would have said my sister. They have strong opinions on my career (that it’s not one), on my single status (that I should find a husband), and on my cooking (but I can’t really argue that). But they can be a little overbearing at times. Except she’s a cop, which makes our relationship difficult since I’m frequently involved in things she probably shouldn’t ever find out about. He has a lot of energy and shitty diapers. I wouldn’t call my relationship with either of them “significant”, but definitely “other”.ĭelia just turned five. Then there’s Nick, a detective investigating organized crime-and occasionally me. He also gives good other things I probably shouldn’t talk about. Which means, he’s a great listener and he gives good advice. He’s a part-time bartender and full-time graduate student, studying to become a public defender. The romance part, however, is often questionable, as evidenced by answer below. I am good at suspense, as evidenced by my answer above. Finlay Donovan sits down for a Q&A with dru’s book musings responding to twenty or more questions so that we can learn more about her.
