KILLS WELL WITH OTHERS

Four talented assassins combine their skills in order to survive what they’d expected to be a peaceful retirement.

Billie, Mary Alice, Natalie, and Helen—60-something women who long worked for the clandestine organization known as the Museum—are already underappreciated because of ageism. After having spent years working alone and together, they’re supposed to be retired. When they receive postcards summoning them to Williamsburg, Virginia, they hope it has something to do with their pensions, which were canceled when the Museum decided to kill them—a plan that luckily failed in Killers of a Certain Age (2022). Emerging from their accommodations, which are far from high-end, to meet their former boss, Naomi, they learn that another retired member of the Museum has just been murdered. A black wolf carving found in her hand suggests that the motive may be connected to a 40-year-old case. The four are assigned an off-the-books job killing Pasha Lazarov, the son of one of their earlier targets, before he kills them. Pasha is traveling to England aboard the Queen Mary 2. Not until after they come up with a clever plan to knock him off do they learn that it’s his sister, Galina, long thought dead, who’s actually pursuing them. Delighted to be back at their old job despite their bickering and squabbling, they relive past cases as they travel to several unsavory European and Egyptian spots in search of Pasha’s murderous sister and end up involved in an art theft case that dates back to the Third Reich.

A nonstop-action thriller that’s often disconcertingly funny in posing moral questions about the murder of horrible people.