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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BOOK
Publisher ‏ : Berkley; First Edition 
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2022
Format:  Hardbook, Paperback, Audiobook and ebook
Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
Genre:  Suspense Thriller Fiction

MY PERSONAL OPINION OF “KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE” by Deanna Raybourn

I got the book from my local library and I was super excited when I saw the book as this book has been in my TBR for a long time. which I really enjoyed. I remember all the buzz this book got when it was published and there is. a second book for the same series.

This book was a great read. It was funny, fast paced, emotional, with all the extra that a thriller brings to a plot. I enjoyed the characters, their long history together as. band of assassins (first all women assassins team), the lead character was good, strong, honest, and crazy at the same time. I enjoyed listening to her and her team stories.

The best way to describe the book is hilarious and entertaining and really that is exactly what my expectation was so it was a good solid read for me.

I recommend this book if you want a suspense thriller in which the main characters are group of sixty-something women with a 30 year experience being the best team assassin. I truly enjoyed this book.

PREMISE OF THE BOOK AS FOUND IN AMAZON / GOODREADS:

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.

MY RATING:

My rating for this book is a solid 4.7

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bibliography:

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 the Edgar, two RT Reviewers’ Choice awards, the Agatha, two Dilys Winns, and a Last Laugh. 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’s second adventure is A PERILOUS UNDERTAKING (January 2017), and book three, A TREACHEROUS CURSE, was published in 2018 and nominated for the Edgar Award. A DANGEROUS COLLABORATION was released in 2019, and A MURDEROUS RELATION appeared in 2020 and AN UNEXPECTED PERIL published in March 2021. The latest Veronica Speedwell adventure, AN IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSTOR, will be published in February, 2022. Deanna’s first contemporary novel featuring four female assassins who must band together to take out their nemesis as they prepare for retirement, KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE, will be published in September of 2022.

Other books by the author:

A Curious Beginning

A Perilous Undertaking

A Treacherous Curse

A Dangerous Collaboration

A Murderous Relation

An Impossible Impostor

Kills Well with Others