Excellent title, terrific amoral fun, great female friendships, and here's to post menopausal heroines. In any case, there is both humor and suspense in Killers of a Certain Age. The other is set forty years later, at their retirement, when they realize that instead of getting their pensions, they've been marked for death by the agency they've devoted their lives to. Day and age killers. What follows is a frankly amazing game of "get them before they get us" as the four women attempt to secure their future by way of murder and uncover who has betrayed them.
But the narrative also takes a bit of time to touch on their friendships, the different choices they've made in their lives, and the indignities of getting older. The uniform, dark grey and severe, does her the favor of showing off a fair bit of shadowed cleavage and a knee he wants to get to know better. The world of today is moving faster than ever, causing generational gaps to grow wider and wider by the minute. PS – There's a bit of logistics in the beginning third of the book where the women have to travel to, from and about the UK in a way that won't alert the people who are tracking them. I sincerely hope there's a sequel and I could see a television company making an offer too… That would be so entertaining to watch! Does this make her wise or paranoid? One of our favorite Book Nerd activities is going to book club! Review of Killers of a Certain Age. Killers of a Certain Age. I found the crude quips and one liners juvenile and they quickly grew thin. Even if society as a whole is ready to dismiss them as no longer of use, they're crafty enough to know that's not true.
When I read the synopsis, I was expecting something light-hearted. Killers when we were young. His secretary waits patiently behind him, still shielding the case with his body. If you enjoy comic thrillers, cozy mysteries, and caper books, I think you'd like Killers of a Certain Age. I went ahead and listened to a few other books before finally circling back to this one to give it another shot. How does Constance fit into the idea of women who support other women?
I love reading her characters they are always interesting, well defined, sassy, and fully realized. Henderson is sick and the agency called me. Free review copy provided by publisher, in exchange for an honest review. When it says this book is Golden Girls meets Bond, what it means is that it's got 4 older women who are assassins, and isn't that just crrrrrazy enough to carry the whole story? There's also a lot of on-page murder, but because everyone who is dispatched is quite terrible, it didn't bother me too much, especially not when they hunt nazis. There's a focus on friendship, connections, age, perception and invisibility of older women, trust, and much more. However, when they find someone from their organization in disguise aboard the ship, they wonder if they have been marked for termination, or are they merely expendable? I enjoyed the storyline, and the characters and hope they return. As the women race around the world trying to stay alive, Raybourn vividly evokes a number of far-flung locations while keeping readers on their toes trying to figure out what's going to happen next. KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE. With the amount of blatant agism all around us today this is a much needed and refreshing message for all ages. The pilot waits while his copilot pauses the preflight check, screwing up his eyes in thought. Women as paid assassins, murderers for hire... what a switch from the norm!
And finally: taking time out of my life to read an entire book, then write a detailed review about it that some people on GR will look at would be a profoundly inefficient and ineffective way to damage the careers of other authors. I don't want to know. Billie keeps a secret safe house in New Orleans. "Mary Alice is on... Posted by 5 months ago. "Quoting films and trying to decide which one of us they get to take home for the weekend. How would the story change if its protagonists were older?