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From the author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series comes an exciting new heroine whose most secret identity is both lucrative...and lethal. Regulars at Nadia's nature lodge don't ask what she does in the off-season. And that's a good thing. If she told them, she'd have to kill them. She's a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn't owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn't mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur--and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort.To put an end to the murders, Nadia will have to turn herself from predator to prey as she employs every trick she knows to find the killer. Before the killer finds her...From the Paperback edition.
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2 primary books4 released booksNadia Stafford is a 4-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Kelley Armstrong.
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This was more fun than I had expected it to be. I was curious to see Armstrong take on a non-supernatural genre, and she did it fairly well. It would have been easy for Nadia, the ex-cop turned hitwoman protagonist, to be cliche, but she's crafted into an interesting, likable character. If anything I'd say that's a running theme with the book in general: fairly pedestrian plot elements, but a level of craft and artistry behind the characters that more than makes up for that.