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The Housewife Assassin's Handbook

Book 1
The Housewife Assassin Series

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Every desperate housewife would love an alias. Donna Stone has one, and it's government-sanctioned. 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…”

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The Housewife Assassin’s Handbook is a hilarious, laugh-out-loud read. Donna is a fantastic character – practical, witty, and kick-ass tough. There’s plenty of action – both in and out of the bedroom – and although there are a few grittier scenes, generally this is a light, humourous caper of a crime novel. I especially love the housekeeping tips at the start of each chapter – each with its own deadly twist!

This book is perfect for relaxing in the bath after a long day. I can’t wait to read the next in the series. Highly Recommended.” 
—Stephanie Broadribb’s Crime Thriller Girl blog

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"A James Bond for women. Josie Brown's accomplished skills as a writer are on display in this exciting suburban mystery. Strong central characters, compelling incidents to launch the story, twists at every turn. There's humor, romance, and intrigue in this page-turning tale of a housewife-turned-assassin. While taking on the evil Quorum, Donna struggles to reconcile competing feelings of love for the man she lost and the man she found while also feeling motherly concern for the safety of her children. The whole town's involved in this delightful journey through pies, baseball, carpooling, and yes, assassins, moles, and terrorism. I will be reading/listening to every book that Josie Brown writes."— Julie Valerie, the Village of Primm series.

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"Donna will do anything to protect her family even go so far as to pretend a total stranger is the father of her children that they don't remember. Brown takes Donna through every emotion realistically: sadness, stress, guilt, worry, jealousy, anger, feeling violated, and feeling betrayed then finally victorious. There's enough comedy sprinkled in between the emotional scenes and within the action to keep readers' minds from going too grim here. Brown writes the kind of feminist action plot that men should be reading, especially male authors, to cure that trope of 'vapid sexy girl with a gun.'" —Amber Love

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

—Jane Smiley


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

— Barbara Vey

 

"A fun romp in rich, entitled people land. The violence was justified and believable. The dialogue and pacing was such that I finished it in about a day and a half because I wanted to keep reading. I'd absolutely read more of this series."

— Postmark
Wonder-Land

Fast-paced funny romantic/mystery, leaning heavily on the mystery element of the story and not too much on the romance. The latter is there - clearly visible - but what keeps you
page-turning is the cleverness of the plot as it twists and turns to a great conclusion. Witty dialogue and great characters keep you chuckling throughout."

— The Scribe
Pigeonhole

"This is a super sexy and fun read that you shouldn't miss!" - Mary Jacobs, Bookhounds Review

"It's a fast-paced read, and the gadgets are awesome, the perfect combination of mystery and humor." - Curled Up with a Good Book and a Cup of Tea

"...The chemistry between Donna and Jack is enough to set water on fire... A healthy dose of humor and ridiculousness in a book that won't be put down - so go pick it up now!" - Cat's Thoughts

"On many days, I'll join deep discussions about the works of Le Carré, Deighton, Greene, Ambler, and Forsyth.

 

And then I take incredible delight in a series like The Housewife Assassin.

 

Just the name would likely cause eyebrows to be raised, and likely my stature as an 'expert' falls a bit. Too bad! I read for enjoyment. The authors mentioned above all entertained the heck out of me. And so does Josie Brown's wonderfully fun and amusing series about Donna Stone.


I especially love the fantastic twists on life and convention that Stone must go through to keep putting bad guys six feet under while making sure there is food on the table and the kids get to their activities on time (they are always late because, well, something always comes up).
 
I take a lot of delight from the series. I hope you do as well because I want more adventures."


—Randall Masteller, Spy Guys + Gals

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IN BOOK 23 of the
HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:

Donna and Jack Craig are on an around-the-world mission to retrieve nine digital directories listing names of intelligence operatives—one belonging to the United States, the other eight belonging to its allies and enemies—as they are sold by the highest bidder by an anonymous terrorist. 
 

At the same time, Jack thinks he has reasons to question Donna's love for him. Will saving their country cost the Craigs their marriage?

The Housewife Assassin's Gambit

Book 24

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The Housewife Assassin's Manners, Missiles, and Mayhem

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The clock is ticking as Acme covert operatives Donna and Jack Craig and their mission team traverse the country to take down the embedded Russian spies and their turned assets, who are sabotaging the United State’s missile grid.

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The Housewife Assassin's Relationship Survival Guide

Book 4 - The Housewife Assassin Series
 

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London. Paris. Guantánamo Bay. Donna Stone is looking for love–and terrorists–in all the wrong places. Worse yet,  an old flame gets in the way of Donna's chance for true love. But she doesn't cry. She gets even.

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The Housewife Assassin's Killer Christmas Tips

Book 3 - The Housewife Assassin Series

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‘Tis the season for mistletoe…and murder! There will be no peace on Earth if Donna doesn't find a shipping container filled with heat-seeking missiles!

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The Housewife Assassin's Guide to Gracious Killing

Book 2 - The Housewife Assassin Series
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A nuclear arms summit, hosted by a politically-connected American billionaire industrialist, provides the perfect opportunity for a rogue operative to assassinate the newly-elected Russian president on US soil. Acme operative Donna Stone's mission” seek and exterminate the shooter, before all hell—and World Word III—break loose.

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The Housewife Assassin's Vacation to Die For

Book 5 - The Housewife Assassin Series
 

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An NSA scientist has disappeared with a deadly plague virus. Donna and Jack must find him before it is unleashed on Fantasy island. But first they'll have to deal with a nude sunbathing serial killer, a Lord of the Flies ‘tween takeover, poison dart-throwing pygmies. And you call this a vacation?

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The Housewife Assassin's Recipes for Disaster

Book 6 - The Housewife Assassin Series

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Donna must stop the assassinations of both US political parties' presidential candidates. But when

she discovers she has a long-term vendetta with

one of the targets, can she put aside her animosity long enough to save the candidate's life?

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The Housewife Assassin's Hollywood Scream Play

Book 7 - The Housewife Assassin Series
 

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Lights, cameras and non-stop action! When Donna and Jack are placed on Interpol's Most Wanted list, they go on the lam by accepting an offer to act as espionage experts on a movie set.

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The Housewife Assassin's Killer App

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In order to flush out an internationally renowned hacker who is wreaking havoc with top-secret documents inside the United States' Intelligence Community's secured database, housewife assassin Donna Stone infiltrates three very successful high tech corporations, including an interactive game start-up with an avatar on the deadliest mission of all: kill Donna.

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The Housewife Assassin's Hostage Hosting Tips

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It's up to Donna Stone to save a hotel filled with international dignitaries—and POTUS—from terrorists whose usual demands are million-dollar ransoms. But this time, the price is much higher, and much more personal, for the housewife assassin.

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The Housewife Assassin's Garden of Deadly Delights

Book 10 - The Housewife Assassin Series

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Housewife assassin Donna Stone's green thumb–and for that matter, her trigger finger–is put to the test when she must stop the release of genetically enhanced corn containing a deadly brain-eating virus.

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The Housewife Assassin's Tips for Weddings, Weapons, and Warfare

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It's time for Donna Stone and Jack Craig to tie the knot—hopefully, not around each other's necks as they juggle the planning of their wedding with tracking a terrorist in the White House.

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The Housewife Assassin's Husband Hunting Hints

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There is only one way for housewife assassin Donna Stone to save her husband and mission leader, Jack Craig, from torture and termination: become a traitor and act as a double agent for the terrorist organization known as the Quorum.

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The Housewife Assassin's Ghost Protocol

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Housewife assassin Donna Stone's mission: go under deep cover in order to investigate the resurrection of known terrorists where were thought to be long dead and buried.

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The Housewife Assassin's Terrorist TV Guide

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Housewife assassin Donna Stone must be more than just ready for her close-up if she's to infiltrate a television reality show in order to stop the broadcast of a live terrorist act.

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​So, who is the terrorist who wants to hold these celebrity housewives hostage—and worse yet, kill them off in front of their adoring fans?

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The Housewife Assassin's Deadly Dossier

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In this full-length prequel to the series, Acme Industries' black-ops agent, Jack Craig, is tasked with investigating the mysterious death of his organization's most prolific hitman, Carl Stone–only to fall in love with the dead man's wife, Donna: a woman he must never contact, but who may hold the key to her husband's disappearance.

 

When Acme approaches Donna to join the organization as an assassin, Jack takes on an undercover mission that will change both their lives forever.

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The Housewife Assassin's Greatest Hits

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As housewife assassin Donna Stone Craig's life hangs in the balance, a deadly bet with the Grim Reaper brings forth a cavalcade of ghosts from her past.

 

Their sometimes chilling but always insightful points-of-view on Donna's life leaves her with a few regrets, and at the same time grant her the redemption she needs to keep living. But first, she must beat the Reaper at his own game.

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The Housewife Assassin's Fourth Estate Sale

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Donna and Jack must infiltrate a major media conglomerate's newspaper, television, and radio divisions in order to stop a foreign state's covert attempt to sabotage the U.S. president.

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The Housewife Assassin Gets Lucky

Stand-Alone Novel
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When two hot, haute heroines team up to solve a murder, neither can afford to be fashionably late. But no one expected to find a dead girl in the Royal Suite at the Babylon’s posh London club. Who would kill her? And why?

But before Donna and Lucky can find the right answers, they’ll need to overcome their reservations, and resolve their differences. But can they learn to trust each other before the real killer gets away? They have to. Their lives—and world peace—depend on it.

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The Housewife Assassin's Horrorscope

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Donna, Jack and their Acme ops team must find twelve suspects, each born under a different Zodiac sign, who hold clues to a Doomsday operation that will put the United States in the middle of a world war.

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The Housewife Assassin's White House Keeping Seal of Approval

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In order to save Jack from being branded a traitor, Donna Craig uses her position as a senior security advisor to the President of the United States to expose the White House-embedded foreign saboteur from stealing the upcoming election.

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The Housewife Assassin's Assassination Vacation Planner

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The clock is ticking as housewife assassin Donna Craig and her husband and mission partner Jack, race across the world to stop the assassinations of seven world leaders.

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The Housewife Assassin's Antisocial Media Tips

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Donna and Jack are ready for their close-ups as fake-famous overnight sensations in order to expose who among several very popular social media influencers is passing U.S. state secrets to foreign agents.

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