The Housewife Assassin's Handbook

By Josie Brown

Book Overview

IN BOOK 1 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:

Every housewife needs an alias. Donna Stone has one--and it happens to be government-sanctioned.

Oh, sure, you need to be ruthless to take on Russian mafia bosses, rogue dictators, and terrorists set on destroying the world. But it takes real killer inst

Donna's life wasn't always this complicated. Five years earlier, she was just another woman with two preschoolers, a baby bump, and an adoring husband: Carl, with whom she lived happily ever after in a McMansion in the Orange County, California, community of Hilldale. But Donna's life was changed forever the night she delivered her baby: Carl's car blew up on the way to the hospital.

Carl was a "hard man" - an assassin - for the black ops organization Acme Industries. The Quorum carried out the hit on Carl, a terrorist cell he was tracking. The Quorum's motto: "Show me the money." Governments and corporations do as they're told--or suffer bloody consequences.

Carl left something behind that the Quorum wants badly. To protect herself and avenge Carl's death, Donna joined Acme. Whereas her hostessing skills rival Martha Stewart's, her marksmanship is second to none.

A good thing, too, because the Quorum has planted a sleeper cell in Hilldale. For Donna, that's too close for comfort. Will she be able to save her family before the Quorum blows up Los Angeles? Acme's way of flushing out the Quorum is by "bringing Carl back from the dead."

But terrorism makes strange bedfellows--and brings new meaning to that old adage "Honey, I'm home..."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194205209X
• ISBN13: 9781942052098
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Signal Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

mildly interesting

1st book in the series. It was an OK book. A little disjointed that an ordinary housewife becomes a CIA assassin with only 12 weeks of training. Donna's husband (who was secretly CIA) is presumably killed in a car crash and details of his secret life are revealed to her & CIA job offered. Killing people and shuffling her 3 kids around Donna gets a sweet gig to take down the organization that killed her husband. Throw is a hunky operative that she has to play house with and you have some romance & danger. The housewife tips at the start of each chapter were pretty funny and made the book more interesting. I don't think I will continue with this series