Announcing Our September Selection
Our band of heroines are on the mission of their lives
This month, we’re on a mission
The votes are in and I am excited to announce our selected title for September 2025: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn. I read this book soon after it came out in 2023 and am convinced it’s one of the reasons we’re starting to see more interest in midlife and older heroines.
Listen up! Readers love this one on audiobook, especially.
Paperback, ebooks, and hardcover:
Bookshop.org Barnes & Noble Thrift Books Amazon
Audiobook:
Libro.fm
Synopsis
From the book description:
Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire—it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.
When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they’ve been marked for death.
Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman—and a killer—of a certain age.
NOTE: Special Discussion Date This Month
Our live book club discussions typically take place the last Thursday of the month, but I will be traveling and unavailable. Instead, September’s live discussion will happen *Wednesday,* September 24 at 7 pm Central.
I’ll send the video link to subscribed members a few days before the event. Mark your calendars!
A Few Things Before You Go…
You have the chance to vote on future selections
Those of you who signed up as paying book club members will be able to vote on future book selections. Each month I will offer up 2 - 3 titles for your consideration, so keep an eye on your email for those notifications.
The member chat is live
When I surveyed peoples’ interest in joining a book club like The Middle, the #1 feature members wanted was an active community chat. Great news is that Substack has a great chat function. I kicked us off by listing a few tidbits about me as a reader. Check it out and add a few tidbits of your own.
Invite a Friend to The Middle
Sharing is caring, the more the merrier, you get the gist.
See you on September 24
Until then, I’ll catch you in the chat.