While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s second book featuring her retired spies, Kills Well with Others, I preferred the first in the series, Killers of a Certain Age. It’s not the author’s fault that I’ve read so many books since then that feature senior sleuths or spies.
For years, Billie Webster and three other women, Helene, Mary Alice, and Natalie, were professional assassins working for a British organization called the Museum. They’ve retired, but after a massive shake-up when members of the administration tried to kill them, the four women have been called back. Someone has killed an assassin, and the death may be connected to a recent security breach. Worst of all, all four women could be targets because of a case in the past when they took out a Bulgarian. Are they targets of the man’s son? They accomplish their goal of killing their target on their Queen Mary 2 trip, but it only grows more complicated with a web that goes back to World War II and art smuggling. Now, as they hide in plain site, and travel across Europe and Asia, they attempt to complete a job they started over thirty years earlier.
Fans of Killers of a Certain Age, will enjoy the return of the four senior assassins whose escapades from the past and present are intermixed in a fast-paced, humorous adventure. The books stand out with the wit and unlikely friendships.
Deanna Raybourn’s website is https://www.deannaraybourn.com/
Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn. Berkley, 2025. ISBN 9780593638514 (Hardcover), 368p.
FTC Full Disclosure – I read a galley approved through the publisher at NetGalley, with only a promise of an honest review.
