Book Review: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

 

Title: Killers of a Certain Age

Author: Deanna Raybourn

Stars: 5

Review: 

There is an old saying "Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned". Well, reading this work will give lie to that statement. If there was a moral to be taught by this book it would be do not get on bad side of four retired ladies who were trained as assassins and spent their careers doing their assigned jobs very well. Above all else do not it by double crossing them on their retirement cruise by attempting to murder them. This scenario sets the stage for an action-packed adventure which sets them against their former employing organization to find out why and to correct the untenable position they find themselves in.

This adventure will take you to several countries and finally be resolved in an old English country manor house where they originally trained. No mercy is asked for and none is given only sought after answers. I rated this book 5 stars.

I received an ARC for my unbiased review and the above thoughts are entirely my own.

Thank you, Frank, for your review. 

Synopsis:

Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.

When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they've been marked for death.

Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They're about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman--and a killer--of a certain age.

About The Author:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Deanna Raybourn is a 6th-generation native Texan. She graduated with a double major in English and history from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Married to her college sweetheart and the mother of one, Raybourn makes her home in Virginia. Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including two RT Reviewers’ Choice awards, the Agatha, two Dilys Winns, a Last Laugh, three du Mauriers, and most recently the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Novel. She launched a new Victorian mystery series with the 2015 release of A CURIOUS BEGINNING, featuring intrepid butterfly-hunter and amateur sleuth, Veronica Speedwell. Veronica has returned in several more adventures, most recently AN IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSTOR, book seven, which released in early 2022. Deanna's first contemporary novel, KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE, about four female assassins on the cusp of retirement publishes in September 2022. (Please note: Deanna is not active on GR.)