![]() ![]() Better for her to fuss about snagged pantyhose than any of the thousand other things that could go wrong on their first mission, Billie decides. A fine tale of female bonding, cooperation, and mutual success. Now the tables are turned and they must outsmart the killers who are pursuing them. Four women of a 'certain age' have been assassins throughout their working lives. Helen is nervous and that means her eye for detail is hyperfocused, searching out things to worry about. While murder is never amusing, if ever it was, this is the book that would make it so. Kill Bill meets Miss Marple, Raybourns engrossing slice of cosy crime pits four ageing female assassins against the organisation that originally hired them - and is now trying to bump them off. ![]() Billie opens her mouth to argue and closes it again when she sees the tightness around Helen's lips. The run is so tiny only Helen would have noticed it. Please go change while you still have time. ![]() Besides, they're supposed to believe we're stewardesses and no stewardess would be caught dead with torn pantyhose." Helen brandishes a familiar plastic egg. "It's an assassination, and you can make an effort to look nice. "My mother always says it's common as pig tracks to go around with a run in your stocking," Helen says, eyeing Billie's ripped hosiery critically.īillie rolls her eyes. ![]()
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