Let me start by saying: if you need a book to be realistic/plausible, you will hate this novel. It requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. If, however, you can accept that a struggling romance author/suburban mom can keep company with the Russian mafia and get away with murder, then read on. The protagonist makes a shocking number of terrible decisions and somehow manages to get away with them. This was an easy listen and I enjoyed that it was set in the DC suburbs – fun to mentally place it near Dulles, South Riding and Reston. As ridiculous as the book was, it entertained me in a cotton candy kind of way.