'Scuse me while I kill this guy

by Leslie Langtry

Paper Book, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Series

Bombay Assassins (1)

Genres

Publication

New York : Leisure Books, 2007.

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: 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 to 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… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member CDVerhoff

Leslie Langtry's dastardly plan worked. I bought this book on a free day and now I will be shelling out some real dollars to buy more of her books.

It moved at a fast clip, which I liked. The main character's internal dialogue is hilarious. Except for being part of a family of assassins, she's very

much an ordinary modern woman. She's loves junk food, has put on weight, deals with overbearing PTA moms and annoying relatives. On the side, she's a cold-blooded killer, but I rooted for her anyway.

There were parts of the novel I found implausible though. She invites a guy to live with her and her five-year-old daughter when she hardly knows him. A meticulous and paranoid assassin would be more careful than that. Also, after a lifetime of guarding the family secret, she reveals everything to him in a short period of time. Despite its shortfalls, I found this story so gosh darn entertaining I'm giving it 5 stars anyway.

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LibraryThing member ecw0647

We all read different kinds of books depending on mood, school, time of day, etc. Sometimes something light is required. This series fits the bill.

Virginia (all the family members are named after cities or geographic locations) is a member of the Bombay family whose tradition and business is they

are assassins. All independently wealthy thanks to the family trust fund, each receives assignments from the "Council" made up of senior family members. Part of the family reunions, normally held every five years is to eliminate someone in the family who has failed some assignment and to initiate children just turning five into their new responsibilities. Each member develops a specialty: " Poison was my specialty. Everyone in the family had a favorite way of killing people, even though we were required to cross-train. With my brother, it was asphyxiation and/or strangulation. And while I should probably worry about that, it made us a good team because we both liked to make each job resemble death by natural cause. Of course, occasionally we ran out of time and had to leave the scene of the crime with a plastic bag still on the victim’s head, but that happened only once when I’d been running late from picking up Romi from preschool." Held on their own private island, they have to go inside buildings every day at 4 p.m. to avoid passing satellite surveillance. This invitation is unusual in that it comes just one year after the last. Refusing is not an option.

"As I stroked the creamy vellum paper, for a brief moment I thought about sending my regrets. But only for a moment. After all, it wasn’t an option on the R.S.V.P. card. Unlike most family reunions with sack races, bad weather and crappy T-shirts, where to refuse to go only meant you weren’t in the ridiculous all-family photo, to turn down this invitation was death. That’s right. Death. Any blooded member of the family who didn’t show was terminated. Now, where had I put that goddamned pen?"

It appears a mole has wormed his way into the family, it's a male member of the family is all that's known and Virginia has been assigned the task of eliminating the threat. Things get complicated when she falls in love with a bodyguard for a man she has been assigned to take out. But enough plot. Just plain fun.

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LibraryThing member mmoj

I rarely give up on books and don't ever throw books away. This one was painful to finish and after I finished I had a hard time not throwing it away as I just couldn't think anyone who I could give it to. Soccer mom as an assassin, thought it sounded fun so bought bought it. Actually the back

cover was as interesting as the whole book. The characters had no depth and the storyline was not well developed. Wouldn't recommend.

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LibraryThing member mmoj

cover was as interesting as the whole book. The characters had no depth and the storyline was not well developed. Wouldn't recommend.

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LibraryThing member mmoj

cover was as interesting as the whole book. The characters had no depth and the storyline was not well developed. Wouldn't recommend.

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LibraryThing member mmoj

cover was as interesting as the whole book. The characters had no depth and the storyline was not well developed. Wouldn't recommend.

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LibraryThing member mmoj