The book opens well enough in 1979 with a flashback to the the first mission that the women of “Project Sphinx” take on-posing as “Stewardesses” (even though that term was already replaced by flight attendant or cabin crew by then) to take out a quartet of Bulgarian men. The strength of the books mentioned, or any COZY for that matter, are the CHARACTERS and that is the weakness of this book.

Would a quartet of retiring female Assassins in their sixties capture my fancy as well?īut, surprisingly it WASN’T because they were ASSASSINS. I don’t really enjoy books about Spies or Assassins, so I was going to PASS on this one, but I DO gravitate towards “characters of a certain age” so when a lot of positive reviews started coming in for this book-I reconsidered!Ĭlearly sleuthing “Seniors” are having a moment with the success of Richard Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” series, and the “The Marlow Murder Club” by Robert Thorogood. They're about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman-and a killer-of a certain age. 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.

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. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own.

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. 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.īillie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon.

Book killers of a certain age