Killers of a Certain Age: A gripping, action-packed cosy crime adventure to keep you hooked in 2023

Killers of a Certain Age: A gripping, action-packed cosy crime adventure to keep you hooked in 2023

Taschenbuch
3.94

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Beschreibung

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

Billie, Mary Alice, Helen and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. But now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates their real-world resourcefulness in an age of technology.

When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses-paid trip 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 realise they've been marked for death.

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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3.5 / 5 I picked up Killers of a certain Age as a short time read, easy entertainment and a break in between other books after seeing how many of my fellow readers (whose judgement I trust) enjoyed this heaps. It ended up being all that while just taking me a little longer to finish it, but it was an easy read and I was entertained. Why am I still somehow disappointed? Maybe I read too many of the quotes and jumped on the bandwagon too quickly to have forgotten at least some of them again. Maybe I just hoped to form a bit more of a connection with the characters, but the truth is: I just didn’t. This read a bit like the feminist counter-draft to those 2010 RED movies, which I found hilariously entertaining, but are as forgettable as they come. I was not really surprised by any of the plot twists, neither did I particularly care? I just lacked a connection to the characters to be anything other than mildly entertained while having the odd chuckle about the quick witted responses sometimes or a fit of rage due to the acutely accurate descriptions of women’s lives, struggles and fights in a world designed and still ruled by men. Don’t get me wrong, this is a good read. It did not keep me on the edge of my seat, but maybe it would have been a better choice for a cozy, rainy afternoon to relax.

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