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by Brianna Heath
For fans of This Girl's a Killer and Joanna Wallace comes a quirky, queer, crime-filled mystery following a contract killer who breaks all her rules when she is hired to kill someone who doesn't exist...
For this hitwoman, curiosity may be killer.
Contract killer Robbie McNeil never asks questions. Her mission is simple. Do the job. Get paid. Get back to running the karaoke bar she co-owns with her queerplatonic partner and fellow contract killer, Dee. And it works...Until their ambitious new theatrical venture breaks the bank.
When a mysterious new client hires Robbie for a hit, she takes the job, even though it's sketchy as hell he won't tell her anything but the target's name. But hey, she didn't build her reputation by being curious, and she desperately needs the cash.
Except something about this new target doesn't add up. When he disappears with no record he ever existed, she chucks her no-questions-asked policy out the window, determined to figure out who this target really is. But the price for asking questions is high and might just cost Robbie everything she holds dear.
"Heath's brightly written debut ends with an extra treat: a Reading Group Guide whose questions are actually worth discussing." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Wry prose and a fair-play but hard-to-solve mystery make this sing. Admirers of Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous will be impressed. " ―Publishers Weekly
"Heath may have just invented a new genre...the cozy thriller! In Robbie McNeil's Hit List, the stakes are high, the characters are killers, and the story is a warm hug. This truly unique debut novel reminds us that even murderers-for-hire deserve a night out with friends. A delightful blend of cozy and sweet and murder-y...three of my favorite things in a book." ―Tamara Berry, award-winning author of Murder Runs in the Family
"Robbie McNeil's Hit List is like a night out at your favorite gay bar. There's karaoke, musical theater, and the owners are slaying (literally). The "hit list" is less about murder-for-hire and more about what songs they're going to play on any given night. It has the feel-good vibes of a holiday movie with a killer twist." ―Tasha Coryell, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer
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Brianna Heath is a queer, neurodivergent woman from Northern California who writes messy women and stories that center queer companionship and joy. This is her debut.
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