Book review: Somebody Worth Killing by Jessica Payne

4.35⭐
Genre ~ contemporary women’s fiction, domestic fiction
Setting ~ Texas
Publication date ~ June 16, 2026
Publisher ~ Berkley
Est Page Count ~ 297 (56 chapters)
Audio length ~ 10 hours 14 minutes
Narrator ~ Patti Murin
POV ~ single 1st, present tense
Featuring ~ grandparent with dementia

My review:

Nadia is our professional assassin, but she’s also a great wife and mom to 2 adorable girls. Tired of just doing small, easy hits she’s ready to branch out and asks her handler for a big job. She’s thrilled until she finds out the big fish is her husband, Brian, and she’s offered a pretty penny to end his life.

But why would there be a hit on her dotting and perfect husband? Does she really not know the person she has been spending the last decade with? Well I suppose she has secrets, so it’s quite possible he does, too. With the help from a fellow assassin friend she’ll soon find out what the old hubsters been hiding.

Y’all this was great! It was fast paced, just how I like ’em. I was fully engaged throughout and couldn’t wait to find out the hub’s fate. Also, loved her relationship with her grandma. It was sweet and sad, and intriguing. I’m so hoping for a sequel because there’s definitely more to the story and I want it ASAP!

Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the above info for reference.

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Book blurb:

Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big she’s actually an assassin. And she really needs a babysitter who shows up on time.

Nadia Davis is living the dream as a successful working mom with a career she loves, two adorable little girls, and a devoted husband who has no idea that she’s secretly a hired assassin and psychopath who kills certified bad guys. So when Nadia finds out she’s been “mommy tracked” by her assassin’s agency and is no longer getting the bigger, more exciting jobs, she demands an important mark…somebody worth killing.

But it turns out that big kill is the last person she expects—her husband. How is the sweet, kind, teller-of-dad jokes she’s promised her life to an evil villain who needs exterminating? Has their whole life together been a lie? Now Nadia must choose between the two things she loves most in life, the career that keeps her sane or the family she thought she knew.

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