“You and the others are good or they wouldn’t have given you the job.” “You got this, Billie,” he says in a low voice. Something is thrumming under her skin, he can almost smell it. Her hands don’t shake and her eyes don’t dart around. She is perfectly turned out, from the crisp, uncreased uniform to the smooth, dark blond hair tucked into a neat French pleat.

She pauses and the pilot gives her an assessing look. “Every other one of your quotes is from The Godfather,” she says. “And his next line will be from The Godfather.” “What movie is it from? Vance just threw that one out and acted like I’d punched his grandmother when I didn’t know it.” “It’s original! Come on, I make a great Sam Spade.” “I don’t remember that in The Maltese Falcon,” she says.

It was low and smoky, the sort of voice that ordered whiskey neat and told the bartender to keep the change.” “She missed being beautiful by just a hair, but the voice more than made up for it. He pulls his mouth to the side, doing his best Bogart as he looks her up and down. “Skirt!” he calls.īillie steps into the doorway of the cockpit. “It could be.” The copilot jerks his head towards the galley.

“Jesus, Sweeney, no, it’s not Monty Python. “ Monty Python and the Holy Grail?” he guesses. I am not only super excited to reveal the cover but to also say that the book met all my expectations and is fun, smart, hilarious, has girl gang vibes (assassin team), and a great dose of revenge.Ĭheck out the awesome cover below by Colleen Reinhart, a synopsis beyond my “omg I loved this to pieces everyone read it” excitement, and read an excerpt introducing you to Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie on their first assignment. But I never had any doubts that Raybourn was going to kill this book, because she’s just so funny. Now you know the danger of consuming a thing you’re so excited about has a higher chance of being disappointing the higher your anticipation is. I was so excited that the day I was able to get my greedy little hands on an advanced copy I dropped everything and read it.

The squeal that I released when I heard that Deanna Raybourn - who writes one of my favorite historical mysteries series (so funny + grump and sunshine pairing!) - was writing a crime book about assassins, could be heard on the moon.

Killers of certain age