Raybourn then flashes back to the younger Billie’s recruitment into the Museum. Mary Alice has never told her wife what she does for a living and is relieved she will be able to avoid the truth now. Helen is newly widowed, and Billie is feeling particularly ambivalent about life without employment. Now, the four are on a retirement cruise in the Caribbean.
Billie and her friends Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie were the agency’s first all-female assassination squad. The narrative then moves to the present, in which Billie explains that she is a newly retired assassin, and her assassination agency, the Museum, began with a mandate to target former Nazis and now only targets war criminals and other malefactors. They successfully pose as airline stewardesses to assassinate a corrupt Bulgarian official, while fending off sexual harassment from both their target and their coworkers. This is their first mission for a clandestine assassination agency known as the Museum. In 1979, four young women, Billie Webster, Helen Randolph, Natalie Schuyler, and Mary Alice Tuttle are on a flight over Europe. Raybourn intersperses episodes from the group’s past throughout the present-tense narrative. The first chapter opens with a flashback to November 1979. The work begins with an Authors’ Note instructing the reader that the work is fictitious in the interest of many people’s safety. This guide uses the 2022 Kindle edition of Killers of a Certain Age. Many of her works, including Killers of a Certain Age, are New York Times bestsellers. Her books have achieved recognition within the mystery genre, including nominations for the Edgar and Agatha Awards. These works often feature women as sleuths pursuing romance as well as adventure. Raybourn has previously achieved recognition for her historical mysteries, such as the Lady Julia Grey mysteries and the Veronica Speedwell mysteries. The work’s title is a play on the euphemistic reference to older women as “of a certain age” rather than calling them middle-aged, elderly, or senior citizens.
Killers of a Certain Age is a 2022 contemporary thriller by American author Deanna Raybourn.
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