Noah, a married English teacher and father of one, stumbles across a car wreck deep in the Alaskan forest whilst out for a run. the occupant is clearly deceased and a massive sum of money is stashed in a duffel bag next to her. Noah and his family are heavily in debt and both detest their jobs and dream of being able to quit and Noah fulfilling his dreams of becoming a novelist. in a moment of madness Noah takes the money believing it is the answer to all his financial troubles but danger, greed and lies quickly follow.

from reading the description of this book i’d expected more from the story. for me it certainly wasn’t an action packed thriller and that left me disappointed. Noah doesn’t seem to be too concerned at the danger he’d placed himself or others in from his decision to take the money.

many thanks to netgalley and the publishers for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

"Something bad is going to happen. I can just feel it. But I have no way of stopping it."

What would you do if you found 2.2 million dollars in a duffle bag alongside a frozen dead girl in a car on a snowpacked Alaskan side road?

Noah -- high school English teacher, aspiring novelist, husband to Emily and father of Ava -- decides to take it. Who will find out, right? The trouble starts almost immediately when his ex brother-in-law, Colton Hays, happens to come by and finds Noah counting the money in his home office. One thing leads to another and, NO SPOILERS, soon Noah has to wonder if his lies are going to catch up to him in a fatal way.

This was a fast-paced domestic drama/thriller told from two different viewpoints -- one is Noah's and the other is Charlie's -- a neighbor who inadvertently gets very involved with Noah's plot to keep the cash despite all that goes wrong. Noah, determined to leave his unsatisfying teaching career behind him, spends a lot of effort justifying all he does to ensure that his new-found wealth is going to fund his dreams. Basically the average family man gone rogue. Big money will do that to a person.

Although there were several times that I had to suspend my disbelief at different turns of events, I did enjoy the story and kept reading to see how this was all going to play out. Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review. I'll look for other titles by this author in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the Publisher, Bookouture for this review copy which was given in exchange for an honest review. Also thank you to Noelle from Bookouture for organising the blog tour and offering me a space on it!

Noah Kendall is in debt up to his eyeballs. He loves his family but with the mortgage, bills and mouths to be fed, he doesn’t know what to do about it. After a row with his wife he goes off out for a run to clear his head. Before he knows it, he’s knee deep in the Alaskan snow and he comes across a crashed car. Inside, sitting in the driver’s seat is a young woman. She’s obviously dead and has been there for many weeks, frozen in the Alaskan weather. However, in the passenger footwell, Noah finds a large bag filled with money, and lots of it. It’s enough to sort all his problems, and it’s just waiting for him to take it. What would you do?

My first book by this author. For information, this book is set in Alaska. The synopsis for this one sounded great, so there was never any doubt that this would be put on the ‘to be read’ list! It has also been previously released as The Dead Girl, so double check before you read it that you haven’t already!

I loved this one! I thought it had a really strong plot and flowed really nicely. The story is told from the perspective of Noah and Charlie, his next door neighbour. All of the characters were interesting but none of them were very likeable to be perfectly honest! Obviously the book is all about honestly (or lack of it), and it’s unbelievable to see how many dishonest people there are!

I did initially wonder how Charlie fitted into the story, but all becomes clear as the book moves on. Charlie is a 911 despatcher and you get to see what she has to deal with in her job, which to be honest sounds awful! Charlie comes across as a ‘good’ person with high morals, but following a particular harrowing day at work, this does appear to change her opinion on things. Noah obviously has a thing for Charlie, having a clear view of her room from his office window, but whether anything happens between them….well you will have to read it to see.

The main story of the book is what would you do if you found a big bag of money, and nobody knew it was there. This was definitely an interesting theme for a book causing mixed discussions within my house! My husband, shamefully, would have taken it and had a lovely extravagant life! I would have given the idea serious consideration but ultimately my conscience would have gotten the better of me and I would have handed it all in the authorities! We get to see what Noah did, and get to find out whether his decision was the right one.

I found the story to be fast paced, it held my interest and had me on the edge of my seat! Like I said, it also provoked interesting discussions with my (immoral!!) husband, and a book that can do that will always be a winner! I enjoyed everything about this book, and whilst I wondered how it was going to end, I thought the ending was well done and finished it off nicely. It was full of twists and turns meaning you weren’t quite sure what was going to happen next! Yes, okay there were some parts of the book that maybe weren’t needed or I thought ‘that’s not right’, but to be honest the pace of the book was going so fast that it didn’t give me chance to dwell on these before we moved on.

A very enjoyable read which I would highly recommend. The big question is “What would you do?”

I started to read Finders Keepers by K.T. Finch and I thought this book was familiar. Then after a few chapters and then realised I had read this book! It was called The Dead Girl which came out May last year. Still an excellent read - even better the second time round.
I am looking forward to read more books by K.T.Finch.
Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley to letting me read this book for a bias review

Firstly, many thanks to Netgalley and bookoutre for the opportunity to preview this book.

Oh my! If you think you’re having a bad day, week, month, year....this will make you realise, it could be worse!
Noah is the main character in this dramatic tale, who finds himself caught up in a bad situation that gets worse. I enjoyed the writing style and the fact that each chapter is told from a different characters viewpoint, which maintained the tension.
Without giving anything away, my only negatives with this book is the irritating friend and his actions, which verge on ridiculous at times, that and some practical errors (to do with money laundering) that I won’t detail as it would give away the central premise
Still, it moves at a good pace, it swings from quite dark to lighthearted and wraps up neatly at the end.

What would you do if you found over 2 million dollars in a wrecked car? There's also a body of a young girl that has been there about six months. Call the police? Or keep the money? How far would you go to keep the money, murder?
These are the questions Noah has to ask himself. Honesty or being able to afford to have his wife quit her job. Himself, being able to quit being a school teacher and write full time. What a dilemma.
An exciting read! Well written, suspenseful, great characters. Loved the storyline.
5 Stars

What would you do if you could change your life if about a little life
He gets red letters every day so He’s a runaway .
He finds outside a girl who sits slumped away in her seat in the car and finds her money a lot of it near her .
Then what does he does .
I received an ARC

I had very mixed reviews on this one. I had high hopes and the description made it sound fantastic. I did enjoy it but it just didnt reach the high level

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me to read this book. This is the first book I've read by this author. I found it hard going in the beginning but it's the type of book that you can't put down because you just have to find out where it's going. The second half was where the action really kicked in. "Finders keepers" isn't always the case or is it???? Would recommend it.

What an awesome read. My anxiety levels remained extremely high from the first page to the very last page. This author I have just found is a definite keeper!

A new author for me but I have to applaud Finch for keeping me enthralled throughout.
Noah is a disenchanted English teacher and aspiring author. Married with a small child his little family are struggling to survive and are finding themselves in increasing debt.
Whilst our running in Alaska's snowy terrain Noah stumbles across a car smashed in the woods. Inside the car is the body of a young woman and a duffel bag stuffed with enough money to change Noahs' life.
What happens next will keep you enthralled to the very end.

It took me a while to get into Finders Keepers because the opening chapters are like something from a teenage boy’s wet dream. Reading about Noah creepily spying on his neighbour Charlie having sex, getting changed and creating a tent in his pants had me actually wondering whether K T Finch was in fact a teenage boy, but no she is a woman and I suppose as with the way some women take umbrage with how men write women, it seems that can also work the other way round.

The basic premise for Finders Keepers is actually pretty exciting with Noah randomly stumbling across a dead body in a car deep in the Alaskan forest. In the seat next to the dead body is $2.2 million and so what does Noah do, well he steals it of course and leaves the body to rot further. And so ensues an at times silly and plot hole filled story as Noah tries to decide what to do with the money. The character of Noah is the cliche of what an unpublished author is believed to be like. I’m not sure I ever actually liked him as I read this story, and don’t feel he was fleshed out enough beyond being a disillusioned teacher and wannabe author. On the one hand he felt like an easy character to relate to in how he felt within his life and his thoughts about how this money could change his life, but the book lacked any exciting moments (or the moments that were meant to be exciting lacked believability) and I failed to connect with him on an emotional level and so just felt detached from things as I read.

The finding of the money did make me think about how I would react in this situation but the way the plot unfolds after the discovery of the money just felt silly to me. It’s not a wholly believable story and things are just tied up too neatly once we reach the conclusion. Overall it felt like a student’s creative writing story or a really bad straight to DVD movie. The characters just never felt fully-formed and their behaviours, specifically the reaction to the discovery of dead bodies, becoming murderers and murder cover-ups was just so cold and unbelievable and just their general demeanours throughout never made them feel like anything other than characters in a story rather than characters I could see and imagine as real people. Finders Keepers wasn’t a book for me and so is not one I will be recommending.

This book did keep on the edge of the seat but it's not as exciting as a thriller novel I thought. The storyline is good and it ain't boring at all.

I liked the character of Charlie who is an honest and brave woman. On the other hand, I found the protagonist, Noah as a dumb and stupid character. But as the story progress, luck has a different fate written for him.

Overall, a fast-pacing and interesting thriller

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview Finders Keepers by KT Finch.
Noah is a typical man - he is a teacher, has a family, a house, a mortgage.
Charlie is a 20 something young woman - she has a dead end job as a 911 operator, a grandmother in assisted living that she helps, and a sometimes boyfriend. They are neighbors in a remote Alaska town.
Noah lives in the house next to Charlie. Although Noah loves his wife and child, he also likes to watch Charlie from his bedroom window. They don't know each other except to say hello, but their lives are about to intersect.
Noah is jogging one day and he stumbles upon an abandoned car - there is a dead girl and 2.2 million dollars in it. Noah decides quickly to keep the money and starts to count it when he gets home, but his brother in law, Colton, bursts in and now he knows about the money. And he wants a cut too.
Charlie has noticed some odd things going on at Noah's house because she watches Noah too.
When Colton hides his share of the money, Charlie follows him and then she finds the money and takes it. Meanwhile, there are others looking for the dead girl and for 2.2 million dollars.
Colton thinks Noah took his money - Noah is confused because he didn't take Colton's money until he finds Colton's share under Charlie's porch. And then Colton goes missing, the cops are talking to Noah, and Noah discovers he is way over his head and he can't go back in time. It's too late - how can he keep the money, stay out of jail, and keep bad guys from killing him all at the same time!
This is fast moving, breath taking, and suspenseful - How one decision impacts the lives of others - how money can change lives or ruin them.
Murder, mayhem, and mystery surround this really fun book. Liked this one alot.
RECOMMEND..

So....you take a teacher coping with a job he hates add a wife who is struggling with her extra shifts as a Nurse she is forced to take to make ends meet...both are trying to keep up with the Neighbours.....and failing......and then you add a bag of money (2-2 million) that is found in a car with a dead girl in it and you have he basis of ‘Finders Keepers’
The story then moves on as an ex brother in law and then a neighbour ( who the main character previously has been spying on!!)!finds out what has happened and they all get entwined in a should they, shouldn’t they keep the money story with added sub plots
It is a good story and I enjoyed it and has an interesting outcome and is very quick moving a fast paced
It is set in Alaska and found the descriptive writing re how life is there interesting and different to how most of America is often written about
So, an interesting story, well written and enjoyable.

She's speeding through a snowstorm. She knows she should slow down, but the horror of what she's just done keeps her foot on the pedal. She glances at the bag on the passenger seat. She wonders if it's all been worth it. Her tires lose traction and the last thing she sees in the tree directly in front of her.

Noah Kendall is an English teacher, his wife is a nurse. They have a daughter. He has taken a sabbatical to write a book. The money is tight and his wife is tired of working what seems like all the time, while Noah sits at his desk eyeballing a young woman who lives next door.

He and his wife get into an argument because of over-due bills and his obsession with the woman next door. He storms out of the house to take a run ... something to clear his mind and decide what to do.

He made one decision ... to follow an off-beaten path ... which will change his life forever. He sees a wrecked car ... he sees a dead woman in the driver's seat ... he sees a bag sitting next to her. What he discovers is that bag is full of money. He makes another decision ... grab the bag and walk away. The woman is dead ... and he needs the money.

How he expects his life to change is not what he gets. It's a convoluted story of how crime doesn't pay .... or does it?

This is a well-written crime fiction with outstanding characters. From Noah, who really is a good guy who made a mistake, to his suffering wife, to the 911 Operator who lives next door, to the scheming brother in law, to the cop who's having a fling with with neighbor .... they all bring credibility.

This is not the first book of this author's that I have read ...and it won't be the last. Full of twists and turns, you never know where this author will take you. You just know it's going to be exciting.

Many thanks to the author / Bookouture / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this thriller. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The blurb of this novel sounded so intriguing that I had to request it even though I have a backlog of books to read and review. This book did not disappoint.

It was exciting and thrilling and one just did not know what was going to happen next. It also makes one think about the choices that one makes in life and how quickly things can get out of hand. The book was very well-written and I will be looking out for more books from this author.

Very entertaining book,liked the way each chapter starts with one of the characters,starts of with a lot of intrigue but then it slowly tapes off towards the end of the book but still a very intereting read.

4 plus stars

Noah, Emily and Ava are a family living in Alaska. Noah teaches high school English and has come to hate it. Emily is a nurse who works all kinds of overtime hours. She loves her job, but is feeling the stress of working so much when Noah has taken a six-month sabbatical to write. He is not writing. Instead, he is staring out the window at one of his female neighbors who doesn’t pull her shades.

They are in deep financial trouble. Noah bought the big, fancy house because Emily was suffering from post-partum depression after Ava’s birth and he wanted to make her happy. They also have two near new SUV’s and a host of other bills. They are overdue on their payments.

Emily walks into Noah’s study one day and notices him watching the girl next door. He has an unmistakable erection. He fumbles around trying to cover it up and tells her clumsily that it doesn’t mean anything; he was just watching. They fight. She storms out and he goes for a run.

He runs farther than he expected and comes across a car crash. It looks as though it’s been in the trees for quite a while. He is shocked to brush off the snow and find a dead girl inside. Even more surprising is the bag of money on the passenger side of the car. When he gets it home, he discovers that it totals 2.2 million dollars.

Charlie is the young woman who lives next door to Noah, Emily and Ava. She is a 9-1-1 operator and usually her calls are pretty tame, but lately they’ve been awful; murders and such.

When Noah’s former brother-in-law shows up unannounced in Noah’s study and notices all the piles of money on the floor, the reader just knows it’s downhill from there. Things go from bad to worse and the neighbor woman Charlie gets drawn into the drama.

What follows is a nightmare of events, poorly thought out plans and coincidences. This story starts out with intrigue and drama from the very beginning. It is well written and plotted. It is both exciting and action-filled. Noah is a little naïve, perhaps a little slow to recognize the consequences of his actions. He is almost a nonentity. While he states he loves his wife and children, he continued to make bad decisions that seem to oppose his statements. Wow, what a story. It should be subtitled, “The consequences of really bad decisions.” I truly enjoyed reading this novel. This is my first K.T. Finch story and I immediately went to Amazon to look for other books written by this author.

I want to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for forwarding to me a copy of this fascinating book for me to read and enjoy.

A nice book to read, it didnt grip me as much as I expected it too