Deanna Raybourn is a NYT bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author for the Veronica Speedwell Mysteries and has also written another mystery series and some stand alone novels. Killers of a Certain Age is her newest work and it is very entertaining.
The plot is the story of four elderly ladies in their 60s, who have spent the last 40 years as a team of assassins. They were recruited from various places in their 20s to join an elite network of assassins working for the Museum. Each has a different story that makes them perfect candidates for this job. We learn their back stories as we watch them fight for their future.
Now as they are about to retire they realize they are now the target of a hit. False information has been submitted to the board of the Museum and it is a fight to the end, either they will kill or be killed.
There are plots and plans to kill the people who are out to get them. The women need to stand together to save their lives, not knowing who to trust and who is going to try and kill them next. They have always only killed people, who when dead, will make the world a better place. The organization started when Nazis were getting away and hiding in plain site. Their mission was to kill Nazis, save stolen artwork and it grew from there.
One interesting connection in this book is Holocaust art and how some was stolen and is being resold at auction now, if not claimed.
This is a fun and fast moving novel that proves women can do anything men can do. No job is too hard for a woman, and men should be worry, women are as clever and maybe more .
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