While I have been recovering from knee surgery I have found that anything I read needs to keep my attention even when my pain meds are waining in there effectiveness and must be fun enough to make  me smile or giggle once in awhile. After all laughter is the best medicine, and I certainly can use all the help I can get!

Billie, Helen, Natalie and Mary Alice were recruited to work for a clandestine organization called the Museum, forty years ago. Together they have conducted hundreds of assassinations, initially of Nazis who had escaped answering for their crimes and more recently other men and women beyond the law.  But now as they enter their 60’s, their skills are considered old fashioned, and their reflexes are not quite as fast at they used to be, so the Museum has invited them on a cruise as a way to thank them for a job well done and encourage them towards retirement. But once on the cruise, the women discover an assassin who is trying to kill them and realize that someone in the Museum wants to make their retirement permanent!

It is kill or be killed and the women must take on their own organization and discover who has set them up and ordered the hit on their lives. Using all the skills they have honed for forty years, while taking advantage of the low expectations the Museum now seems to have have of them and their abilities, the women will teach those who seek to harm them to never underestimate women, or killers, of a certain age!

This was such a fun book to read! Raybourn, who is the author of the Veronica Speedwell mystery series, knows how to plot and keep the suspense going. Her characters are interesting and diverse both in ethnicity and sexual orientation and they are very different personalities. Raybourn is able to make this work by taking us back in time during different missions that tested the women while building their trust in each other. I sure hope that there is a sequel and that this is the start of a new series!

Brenda’s Rating: ****(4 Out of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to: Marian, Lauren, Sharon and Keith

Book Study Worthy! Yes!

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