Sarah M. Chen

Sarah M. Chen’s mastery of short story writing is echoed seven times greater in this debut novel. The character of Finn Roose, a restaurant manager who is behaviorally and psychologically broken offers the reader a clean, clear humanity that pulls the reader along the quick paced plot because his complexities, actions, twerks, and reactions are so credibly understood. A hard broiled noir, Chen satisfies. Her next book will be awaited by anxious readers who not only felt safe in her capable story-telling hands but found Finn a sought-after protagonist on the bookstore shelves.
--Le Coeur de l'Artiste
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The quintessential noir story is where a man falls deeper and deeper into a hell of his own making. It's generally a story where the man falls deeper into quicksand and can't claw his way out.

Cleaning Up Finn fits right into this genre. The lead character Finn is a lowlife scumbag loser who uses his position as the manager of a South Bay restaurant to pick up any sweet young thing who walked in - the younger the better. And uses his buddy's fancy cars and yacht to
romance the young innocent. Finn's a lush, a conman, a scumball.

This is the story of one such pickup and how it goes of the rails when he realizes to his eternal regret how young she really is and turns into a murder investigation and twists and turns as Finn dives headfirst into a tunnel to hell.… (meer)