Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn : Discussion Thread

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Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon.

They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller.

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.

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11 chapters

love it so far (view spoiler)[ although I thought it'd be funnier. It's not that it's not light, it is, especially for the subject matter, I just thought I'd be chuckling more than I am

anyway, I wonder why they are being eliminated. It seems like others were able to retire from The Museum without having to be killed. I wonder why they aren't being allowed to.

also, good thing ONE of them was prepared with a safe house and fake papers!! (hide spoiler)]

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24 chapters

(view spoiler)[ so now we know why they were targeted (and that they actually were) but to go after the board!! WOAH

I still really like the flashbacks as it gives more background to show they believe in what they were doing and that they thought they'd made the world a better place

I still don't have any guesses as to who ordered their hit and why.I wonder who they'd been forced to kill that shouldn't have been. . . (hide spoiler)]

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and I'm done!

(view spoiler)[ Martin being a part of it was such a plot twist! Loved the backstory there, the reasoning (and how incredulous she was that he'd hold a grudge that long)

so glad Naomi came back, cleaned up and is going to set them straight
they needed a woman running things again
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