Serial killer Neva has been conditioned not to ask questions of the mysterious Network, to remain perfectly incurious and perennially cold-blooded. She must simply execute the targets they text her and live to bury the tale.
But then she’s tasked with terminating a fellow assassin and glimpses her own future in her colleague’s fate. When she leaves flowers on the gravesite, someone notices.
Agent Michael Kensington knows he’ll have his work cut out for him when he’s recruited by MI5 onto operation Archive to piece together patterns in cold cases.
Nothing could ever have prepared him for Neva…
An assassin obsessed with hell, a fugitive tortured by the secrets of her past, a woman destined to unthread him.
Title: The House of Killers
Author: Samantha Lee Howe
Publisher: One More Chapter
Publication date: March 26, 2021
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
"The house of killers" was such a pleasant surprise. Earlier this year I read the author's first novel, a classic domestic suspense, and loved it, so I was a bit surprised when I first read "The house of killers" synopsis, as it was a complete change of genre, so I came into it a bit skeptical. But my skepticism was not justified at all cause she delivered a super entertaining tale of assassins and secret agents I could not stop reading.
A ruthless female assassin. The MI5 agent on her trail. Ring any bells? Exactly! Killing Eve was the first thing that came to mind when I started reading, so I could not stop looking for similarities between them. Although there were a few, both Neva and Michael soon became characters of their own and I forgot about Eve and Villanelle.
Thanks to the alternating chapters this was a super dynamic and quick read. It was also interesting reading some of the other character's POV. The plot soon evolved from a cat and mouse chase into a deeper and more disturbing one.
Although I called the villain early on, the last 20% caught me completely unaware, adding a very interesting layer to one of the characters.
My only critique, and the reason this was not a 5 stars read for me, was that at the beginning there were quite a few coincidences during the investigation that made everything seem to come too easily to Michael and his team.
Well drawn characters, a tense plot that read like an action movie were you have no time to catch your breath till the end, and a very compelling twist made of "The house of killers" a very nice start to what now I know will be a trilogy, with the 2nd and 3rd installments coming out May and July 2021, so I couldn't be a happier reader right now!
Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins UK, One More Chapter for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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