Be prepared to laugh out loud during the reading of this book. Don’t Cross Mo Ellery is hysterical, honest, absurd and crazy all rolled into a smart, shrewd story! I mean, if the first few pages don’t pique your interest, I don’t know what will! Watch as Mo Ellery’s life goes from pretty ok, then bad to worse, and worse and worse, yet you will ride the comedy into the wonderfully funny ending!
On Mo Ellery’s birthday, she accidently displays her boyfriend’s ahem on a zoom call which not only gets her fired, but at the same time she discovers her boyfriend wants to break up, and she must pack up and leave their apartment. To add insult to injury, no one wants her…not her mother and father or her best friend who is a major social internet influencer.
With no money in her savings, she finds a crappy small apartment and a part-time job as a crossing guard. How low can she go? Well, lower! There is one particular driver who becomes her nemesis. One day as he begins to fly by and she prepares herself, something terrible happens and he crashes into a sink hole (which may or may not have been caused by Mo). He is dead in his car. Along with him in said car are three show poodles.
As Mo and a woman named Claudia try to figure out exactly what happened, somehow Mo gets the job of taking the dogs. All three! But it’s what Claudia thinks that has Mo nervous. She thinks he was murdered. Seriously?
So, Mo does what any normal person would do. She takes the dogs to the funeral of their “dad” to try and not only pawn the dogs off to his brother, but to see if there could be any truth to what Claudia has said. And guess what? She thinks Claudia is right! And guess what else? The brother won’t take the dogs!
So along with Claudia and oh yes, a very techy middle schooler, they begin to try and figure out the who, what, where and how of the murder. Then there is another death.
Mo, exhausted from taking care of three dogs, crossing guard duty, watching videos on how to be a detective and trying to discover clues as to what could possibly have happened and oh yes, dating a woman in an Alderman’s office because you know, for leads, what else could possibly go wrong? Well, so much more and it is such fun!
Don’t Cross Mo Ellery will keep a smile on your face the whole time you’re reading the book. This story is about someone who is down on their luck but takes all the danger in stride and in the end well, it may be luck that she figures it out, but she figures it out! And the ending is perfectly Mo Ellery!
Thank you #NetGalley #WilliamMorrow/HarperCollins #BirdieHorne #Don’tCrossMoEllery for the advanced copy.
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