'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy

Greatest Hits Mysteries, Book 1

De: Leslie Langtry

Narrado por: Emily Durante

You can’t pick your family...

Death by Chocolate is her favorite dessert. And those knitting needles aren't just for craft projects. To most people, Gin Bombay is an ordinary single mom. Then again, they don't know she's from a family of top-secret assassins. Somewhere between leading a Girl Scout troop for her kindergartner - would nooses count for a knot badge? - and keeping their puppy from destroying the furniture, Gin now has to take out a new target.

...but you can pick them off.

Except this target has an incredibly hot Australian bodyguard who knows just how to make her weak in the knees. But with a traitor threatening to expose everything, Gin doesn't have much time indulge her hormones. She's got to find the leak and clear her assignment...or she'll end up next on the Bombay family hit list.

©2010 Leslie Langtry (P)2021 Tantor

A very good story!

Very entertaining, great characters and the narrator did a good job on voicing them. I enjoyed the plot and the ending.

Entertaining, but….

I story was entertaining, but having children be Assassins is a bit rough for me and because of that I won’t continue with this series. The performance was very good.

Entertaining Dark Comedy

The Bombay family of assassin's takes dysfunctional to a whole new level. Gin is the quirky protagonist whose sarcastic humor is used to describe the diverse cast of characters.
Suspend disbelief and enjoy the comic relief!

Hilarious

This high quality cozy comedy mystery is absolutely hilarious! I need to get my hands on the rest of the series... made my day!

The family that slays together stays together

“I found myself wondering if I really could kill someone with chocolate cheesecake.
No, that would be a waste of chocolate. Most of my hits didn’t deserve to die so richly.”
This is a not quite cozy series in the spirit of movies like R.E.D., Despicable Me or The Incredibles.
It’s a zippy tale of a family tree of assassins going back centuries and now dealing with life in suburbia.
As with all family trees, there’s a few nuts. Yes, the kids are raised to kill, but it’s a lot like the kids in
The Adams Family- If you can’t suspend disbelief for wonky humor, then stick with vanilla mysteries.

“You and I have unfinished business” The Bride, Kill Bill
Both the violence and the romance are fade to black. The cussing is of the Sh and GD variety.
There’s fun with names (like Gin’s family being named after states like Vir(Gin)ia or Missi(sippi)).
There’s pop culture quotes to start chapters, like from The Professional, Kill Bill, and The Incredibles.
And, there’s a lot of clever, cheeky tips on assassination involving things like Chia Pets.

Is the bad guy obvious? Sure. Will the premise fall apart under close inspection? Duh.
This is not hard boiled noir or a serious crime thriller. This is kooky killer fun and I was there for it.