Thirty-seventh challenge finish of the year.
This is June's book club selection, and I went into it with low expectations. I thought it was a cozy mystery, which I don't usually like. But this one was a pleasant surprise. The main characters are four women who have been contract killers for forty years and have now reached retirement age. They work for an 'agency' whose targets are all people who escape justice: in the old days they were nazi art thieves, more currently they are drug triffickers, human trafickers, etc.
Thirty-eighth challenge finish of the year.
I found this book on my library's Cloud Website page when I was searching for something else. I would have passed this one by, but I noticed the diacritical marks in the author's last name.
It was a short read at 153 pages. It was...interesting. The two main characters are neighbors who have not met until one of them has a cat who keeps turning up at the other one's house. They bond over the cat, and come to realize that they both have really awful boyfriends.
I have been meaning to read this one for so long. Noticed that the library finally had the audiobook available for checkout. Fourteen plus hours, and I listened to all of them today. I didn't even speed the playback much, just 1.2, because for a change I LOVED this narration. And I almost always love anything Mr. King writes. Except Pet Sematary; that one scared me so bad I gave up reading the authors books for ten or so years. It was because of the part where the toddler gets hit by a truck...I had a toddler at the time...just couldn't get the picture out of my head. But that's another book. THIS book was excellent!
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