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#2 Killers of a Certain Age
Thriller
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 3.4.25
Pages: 359
Rating: 4 stars
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Sellers: Amazon
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GoodReads Synopsis:
“Much like fine wine, battle-hardened assassins grow better with age.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner
Four women assassins, senior in status—and in age—sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensation Killers of a Certain Age.
After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the lack of excitement is starting to a professional killer can only take so many watercolor classes and yoga sessions without itching to strangle someone...literally. When they receive a summons from the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready tackle the greatest challenge of their careers.
Someone on the inside has compiled a list of important kills committed by Museum agents, connected to a single, shadowy figure, an Eastern European gangster with an iron fist, some serious criminal ambition, and a tendency to kill first and ask questions later. This new nemesis is murdering agents who got in the way of their power hungry plans and the aging quartet of killers is next.
Together the foursome embark on a wild ride across the globe on the double mission of rooting out the Museum’s mole and hunting down the gangster who seems to know their next move before they make it. Their enemy is unlike any they’ve faced before, and it will take all their killer experience to get out of this mission alive.
Sophia Rose's Review:
Break out the wine! Four retired assassins are back at it again and this time the assignment for the Museum is tracking down Nazi stolen treasure. Deanna Raybourn revisits the four ladies of larceny once again and with one chirrup of surprise, I eagerly pounced.
Kills Well With Others is book two and could be read standalone, but definitely reads best after the introduction to world and characters and thriller action of book one, Killers of a Certain Age.
Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie thought they wanted the grand life of retirement and all their past safely done and dusted, but the greener grass on this side of the fence is, well, dull. So, a new job for the Museum has them slinging their bags and dusting off their honed skills for some late-life wet work. But, a tough job just got lethally complicated when they work out that someone’s out for a spot of revenge and some passed on the team playbook to their enemies. Conclusion, there is a Mole at the Museum.
Kills Well With Others was a surprise- I wasn’t sure there was more coming when I finished Killers of a Certain Age. I’m glad there was because I enjoy these sixty-somethings, their bickering friendships, individual skill sets that work together as a great team when they are forced to go back to back and protect themselves while finishing the mission. This is something of an unfinished case for them. Billie’s perspective tells the current and flashback timelines. Slowly, it shows that these flashbacks have addition purpose other than filling in Billie and the other’s backstory. Those old missions have something to do with the present situation.
Their global adventure is penned so well that it was like taking a fast and furious armchair jaunt which I appreciated. I appreciate the pauses to appreciate culture between action moments when the kill count went up. My only niggle was with the way Billie treated her guy with such rudeness.
All in all, this was an unexpected, but very welcome addition to the series. I loved seeing this team of gals get more page time and see them in action once again. A tasteful thriller aged to perfection.
Author Bio:
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.
https://www.deannaraybourn.com/
Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.
As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.
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Well that sounds different from what I usually read.
ReplyDeleteI am having such fun with this series. This one was wild.
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