With its travel, luxe looks, and inventive action sequences, Killers of a Certain Age is unputdownable. She is fearless and loyal and funny as hell she isn’t who I want to be when I’m her age-she’s who I want to be now.Įvery time I read this book, I escaped to a Caribbean beach bar or the catacombs under Paris. I loved the characters in this book so much, particularly Billie. They aren’t looking forward to retirement: who are they if they aren’t offing “people who need killing”? Luckily for them, when the Museum puts a price on their slightly graying heads, they get a perfect excuse to keep doing what they do best. Bobbi Dumas KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE is Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous I’ll edit tomorrow with more details, because it’s been a very busy day, but Deanna Raybourn is always brilliant, and this, her first foray into contemporary fiction, maintains that streak. Was she right to do so Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie each bring something unique to their missions. How would you describe her She allows circumstances to play out in order to secure the future of the Museum even though this puts the four assassins at greater risk. Plucked from colleges and jail cells alike, Billie and her besties were recruited young and trained well. Naomi Ndiaye is a character who performs a critical role in the plot. The Museum has been in the business of killing Nazis and other “undesirable persons” for decades. It turns out, their former employer-“The Museum”-has ordered their “terminations,” and not in the firing sense. The ladies are forced to chug their poolside drinks and handle the situation with a little ingenuity and elbow grease, complete with an escape into the sea and a blown-up cruise ship. Four sixty-something assassins are on their retirement cruise when badass lead Billie spots the last person she wants to see: an uninvited former colleague. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years.

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