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Kills Well With Others: Deadly Old Broads Part 2

Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn

April 7, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

At this point I’m a bit fuzzy on the finer points because I finished this book about a month ago. We pick up with our protagonists about a year or so since we left them. They have gone their separate ways again for the time being, and they’re still struggling to get their retirement from the Museum sorted out. Naomi – the new or interim new head of the Museum approaches them with an off-the-books job tidying up a mess that a mole in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause ·
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Talking about my generation

Kills Well With Others: A Novel by Deanna Raybourn

March 2, 2026 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

In the sequel to Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn takes us on another thrill ride with four retired assassins and a couple of their significant others. Billie, Helen, Natalie and Mary Alice have been working together since the late 1970s for a secret organization called the Museum. Originally, the Museum was meant to track down Nazis and the works of art that they had stolen and smuggled out of Europe. Nowadays, the Museum, under the direction of a very competent young woman named […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr18, Deanna Raybourn, ElCicco, Fiction, Kills Well With Others, thriller

ElCicco's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18, Deanna Raybourn, ElCicco, Fiction, Kills Well With Others, thriller ·
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Killers of a Certain Age: Damn, I love a competent woman.

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

February 8, 2026 by beereadsbooks 2 Comments

Killers of a Certain Age has been lurking on my TBR for a while. When I picked it up from the Libby app, I was searching for an audiobook option to help fill my ears while doing something with my hands – chores probably. Killers primarily follows four post-menopausal women – Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie – as they near retirement from a lifetime of service with The Museum. The Museum is an extra-governmental organization dedicated to assassinating the Bad Guys, and our heroines […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause ·
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Being Home Sick = Lots of Time to Read

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

September 29, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo – TBR (for The City of Brass) and my 3rd BINGO The City of Brass This has been on my TBR for ages, and I’m glad I finally got to it. It’s a Middle Eastern-inspired historical fantasy that follows the POVs of Nahri, a con woman living in Cairo when we first meet her, and Ali, the younger son of the ruling family of Daevabad (the titular city of brass). While he doesn’t get his own POV chapters, Dara is another important character rounding […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, cozy fantasy, cozy thriller, Deanna Raybourn, S.A. Chakraborty, Sangu Mandanna, thriller

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:66 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, cozy fantasy, cozy thriller, Deanna Raybourn, S.A. Chakraborty, Sangu Mandanna, thriller ·
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“She might be less than what she had once been, but she was still worth a hell of a lot.”

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

October 7, 2024 by NTE 2 Comments

The older I get, the more out of touch I feel with the twenty-something heroines in certain books. The romance genre especially has a lot of really young heroines, and my 45-yr-old self has a hard time, sometimes, not rolling her eyes at just how young they actually are/act, or how implausibly far away 27 feels at this point. Which is not to say that I am ready to read only the quiet, cozy mysteries that seem most populated by people older  – and still […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, funny, killers of a certain age, mystery, spies, women

NTE's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, funny, killers of a certain age, mystery, spies, women ·
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“Not everyone in our acquaintance needs to be murdered, Veronica. In fact, some people find it preferable to make friends with normal folk.”

A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn

July 10, 2024 by Malin 3 Comments

This is book 9 in an ongoing series, and as such, not the best place to start. Start with A Curious Beginning. Official plot summary (because it’s been too long since I read the book): Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: A Grave Robbery, CBR16, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, murder, mystery, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian

Malin's CBR16 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: A Grave Robbery, CBR16, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, murder, mystery, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian ·
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