The Housewife Assassin's Handbook: Book 1 - The Housewife Assassin Series

Josie Brown

May 2011 · The Housewife Assassin Series Book 1 · Signal Press

About this ebook

Murder, suspense, sex--and some handy household tips.

Every desperate housewife would love an alias. Donna Stone has one and it's government sanctioned. Oh sure, you've got to be ruthless to take on Russian mafia bosses, rogue dictators, and terrorists set on destroying the world. But it takes real killer instincts to survive suburbia. Try juggling the 5th grade phone tree during a shootout with arms dealers, or driving carpool while being chased by Chinese double agents.

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.

Turns out Carl was an assassin for the black ops organization known as Acme Corporation. The hit on Alex was carried out by the Quorum, 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. Jack Craig, the wild card Acme operative paired with Donna brings, new meaning to that old adage "Honey, I'm home..."

"The last book that made me laugh: The Housewife Assassin's Handbook. I taught it in a class about comic novels."

—Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

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"This book hits all the right notes...I now want a week at the beach to read them all...I'm completely smitten." — Barbara Ve

Ratings and reviews

loved the cut and thrust of being both mother and assassin

jucy

About the author

Josie Brown is the author of: The Housewife Assassin series; the Totlandia series; and the True Hollywood Lies series. She is also the author of: The Candidate; The Baby Planner; and Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, which was optioned by producer Jerry Bruckheimer for television. Josie lives in San Francisco, California with her husband and two children.