Agent: Pamela Hopkins, Hopkins Literary Assoc. Fans of Helen Tursten and Richard Osman will relish watching these badass women in their 60s (“no one notices you unless you want them to,” Billie observes) swing into action. Colorful regional details and vividly portrayed secondary characters flesh out this rollicking tale. Flashbacks to several of their high-profile cases, including a Zanzibar hit on an aging baroness that comes back to haunt Billie, keep the reader guessing. They immediately go into investigative overdrive, relying on their expert training and experiences to uncover the means and motives behind their potential demise. Soon after they’re forced to go on an all-expenses-paid retirement cruise in the Caribbean, they discover they’ve apparently been targeted for death by the Museum board. Billie, Mary Alice, Natalie, and Helen have been a cozy quartet of “avenging goddesses” for more than 40 years, one of the “most elite assassin squads on earth,” recruited in late 1978 by an “extra governmental” organization called the Museum. The plot of Killers of a Certain Age starts out a bit slow but then picks up pace.
The story follows a quartet of newly retired female spies as they try to outwit a sinister plot to take them out. Berkley, 27 (368p) ISBN 978-8-1 Edgar finalist Raybourn (the Speedwell series) makes a dazzling excursion out of the Victorian era with. So I was surprised to find that Killers of a Certain Age is ultimately a spy thriller. Edgar finalist Raybourn (the Speedwell series) makes a dazzling excursion out of the Victorian era with this uproarious contemporary thriller. Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn.
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