Description
Deanna Raybourn is the queen of intriguing mysteries, as evidenced by her wildly popular Veronica Speedwell series. Unfortunately, her latest series about four senior women who just happen to be assassins is just as inane as that description sounds.
Kills Well with Others—a sequel to Killers of a Certain Age — returns to the lives of assassins Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie as they are contacted by their employer, the Museum, to kill the person who seems to be hunting and murdering Museum employees. Why the person who wants to assassinate assassins is deemed so horrible is a bit of a stretch–aren’t they all murderers, after all?
The jokey nature of comments related to the women’s age falls flat, and the writing surrounding their romantic encounters isn’t much better. The action sequences are fine, but all of them have some reference to how old these women are in some way. Just let them be assassins, already. The fact that they’re all over 60 isn’t as interesting as the author seems to think it is. Raybourn is a great mystery writer, though; check out the aforementioned Speedwell series for proof.
