It was very much a gesture of faith on their part that they thought I could do it. And then I said, ‘I want to write my first contemporary,’ and that was kind of the needle-scratch-on-the-record moment. I said, ‘I want them to be killers,’ and they loved that idea.
“I came back a week later and said, ‘I would want the characters to be 60s,’ and the company loved that idea.
Her editor suggested that Raybourn get on the case. “They had apparently been sitting around chatting in the office one day saying, ‘Why don’t we have more books about older women doing kick-ass things?’” she said in a phone interview. Raybourn, who made a name for herself writing historical mysteries, said the idea of writing about, shall we say, seasoned characters originally came from her publisher, Berkley. “We have never actually killed and do not wish to, but oh, the vicarious satisfaction in following these four Valkyries as they battle arthritis and hot flashes to once again don their super-assassin personas and act.” “We spend our lives nurturing precious life - our children, our grandchildren,” wrote one reader. A quick tour of Amazon reviews shows an overwhelmingly positive (even grateful) response. With its travel, luxe looks, and inventive action sequences, Killers of a Certain Age is unputdownable.Why should young people hog all the heart-pounding adventure, not to mention the shelf space reserved for world-class assassins?ĭeanna Raybourn’s best-selling thriller, “ Killers of a Certain Age,” flips the script we’ve memorized from “La Femme Nikita” and “Ocean’s 8,” introducing women who are veteran killers in their 60s, equipped with all the perspective and perspicacity that comes with life experience. She is fearless and loyal and funny as hell she isn’t who I want to be when I’m her age-she’s who I want to be now.Įvery time I read this book, I escaped to a Caribbean beach bar or the catacombs under Paris. I loved the characters in this book so much, particularly Billie.
They aren’t looking forward to retirement: who are they if they aren’t offing “people who need killing”? Luckily for them, when the Museum puts a price on their slightly graying heads, they get a perfect excuse to keep doing what they do best. Plucked from colleges and jail cells alike, Billie and her besties were recruited young and trained well.
The Museum has been in the business of killing Nazis and other “undesirable persons” for decades. It turns out, their former employer-“The Museum”-has ordered their “terminations,” and not in the firing sense. The ladies are forced to chug their poolside drinks and handle the situation with a little ingenuity and elbow grease, complete with an escape into the sea and a blown-up cruise ship. Four sixty-something assassins are on their retirement cruise when badass lead Billie spots the last person she wants to see: an uninvited former colleague.
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