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> Tag: Deanna Raybourn

“Forty years on one of the most elite assassin squads on earth and it finished like this, with a free cruise and a bouncy letter from a girl who signed her letters with hashtags.”

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

January 24, 2023 by ardaigle 1 Comment

In ten words or less: Retired female assassins: promising premise, fumbles in execution. Retired female assassins are staring down the barrel of retirement when they’d rather still be staring down the barrel of a gun. They miss the action, but they’ve earned their rest and a cruise seems like, well, like something to do with plenty of time on their hands. The contract on the hitman trope is popular in books and in movies. However, Raybourn has taken us away from male characters and even […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, killers of a certain age

ardaigle's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, killers of a certain age ·
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Girls Just Wanna Have . . . Fun?

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

January 12, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Think Charlie’s Angels facing their sunset years.  Far more deadly and ruthless than Farah Fawcett and her pals though, and there is four of them.  And to celebrate their retirement, the Museum (their employer) is sending them on an all-expenses paid cruise.  Hmmm.  Doesn’t really seem like the sort of thing an assassin agency would do. And of course it’s not.  The crew seems oddly muscular, and Kevin can’t be trusted in the least.  Especially since Billie recognizes him as a fellow agent actually named […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: assassins, But they only kill REALLY bad guys, competent older women, Deanna Raybourn, friendship that goes way back, older women with some unique skills, underrated older women

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: assassins, But they only kill REALLY bad guys, competent older women, Deanna Raybourn, friendship that goes way back, older women with some unique skills, underrated older women ·
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Well, I am not proud of it, but a fellow has to make a living and I was blessed with two assets – a passably handsome face and an exquisitely persuasive tongue.

An Impossible Imposter by Deanna Raybourn

November 6, 2022 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR14BINGO: Font Square (BINGO! Shadow to Font) (I’m not sure what the fonts are, but they grace the cover of every Veronica Speedwell novel along with that unmistakable silhouette cover art situation. I can spot it on a crowded bookshelf a mile away and it always makes me happy.) Somehow I managed not to snatch this up as soon as it came out. Usually, I put myself on the library wait list before the next book in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series is published. Raybourn is a favorite of mine, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Deanna Raybourn, Fiction, mystery, Veronica Speedwell Mysery

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Deanna Raybourn, Fiction, mystery, Veronica Speedwell Mysery ·
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Not quite my cup of tea this time around

An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn

July 4, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars First of all, this is book 7 in an ongoing series. I would not recommend that a new reader start here. The first book in the series is A Curious Beginning. Now for the official book description, because my memory is like a sieve: London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: An Impossible Impostor, cbr14, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, mystery, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian

Malin's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: An Impossible Impostor, cbr14, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, mystery, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian ·
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You Englishwomen are all the same. So modern with your bicycling machines and pamphlets on voting.

An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn

June 9, 2021 by Leedock Leave a Comment

Dear Ms Raybourn: You may never stop writing your Veronica Speedwell novels. I will not permit it. Many thanks. Book 6 in the Veronica Speedwell Mystery series, is, as they all are, a damn delight. If you haven’t read them, please do. If you do read them, know that this one does not disappoint. Everyone’s favorite lepidopterist and taxidermist are on a momentary mystery solving and near death experiencing lull. As they work side by side to create an exhibit honoring the late mountain climber Alice Baker-Greene […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: CBR13, Deanna Raybourn, Fiction, historical fiction, mystery, Veronica Speedwell

Leedock's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: CBR13, Deanna Raybourn, Fiction, historical fiction, mystery, Veronica Speedwell ·
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“We are never feckless”, I told her coldly. “We are full to the brim with feck.”

An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn

May 10, 2021 by Malin Leave a Comment

Spoiler warning! This is book 6 in an ongoing series. There will be minor spoilers for earlier books in the series. You can read these without having any background, but it’s always best to start at the beginning, which happens to be A Curious Beginning.    Intrepid lepidopterist and sometime crime solver Veronica Speedwell and her grouchy partner and now lover Revelstoke Templeton-Vane (goes by Stoker) are working on preparing a memorial exhibition at the Curiosity Club for one of its recently deceased members, pioneer mountain climber […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: CBR13, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, mystery, romantic, royalty, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian

Malin's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: CBR13, Deanna Raybourn, historical fiction, Malin, mystery, romantic, royalty, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian ·
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