Lee Winter

Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.

Requiem for Immortals

Renee

Requiem for Immortals is the type of story that stays with you long after you‘ve finished reading it. To say Natalya is flawed is an understatement. As a world renowned cellist, Natalya is cold, witty, rigid, and doesn’t like talking about emotions. Hidden under her skin is the sociopath, stone-cold assassin, Requiem. With her arrogance (and a manipulative stepmother) Natalya/Requiem established a world with walls made of power and rules that should never be challenged. However, all it takes is one little mouse named Alison Ryan to nibble away at Natalya’s world. Natalya and Alison have some serious chemistry; but honestly, Natalya’s level of mystique created a charged reaction with all the characters (not to mention how her "clean it up" remark gave a serious jolt to my....never mind). 

Lee’s development of the setting, plot, and tone allowed me to escape to a world where #saverequiem and #karmickillerforthewin are not only possible but also needed. There are some bad people in the word. I'm not saying they need to "sleep with the fishes" (or pigs), but they need to be exposed just the same. In addition, I appreciate that the story shifts between Natalya and Alison’s POV. The shifts make the mystery/thriller/romantic elements of the story much more authentic. The story itself is a page-turner due to the build-up of the surprised twist near the story’s middle and another twist 70% into the story. Overall, another great story by Lee.

Lucia Correa

5 Stars for a re-read, this time in audiobook format. This is the first book I've listened to that is read by Anais Inara Chase. I don't know if she is Australian and since I’m not, I can't attest to her accent, but I loved her 5 Star narration. 

Another excellent audiobook that reminded me why I loved this book when I read the print version and it may have upped my enjoyment. So much so, I made a new shelf - Memorable Main Character for Requiem/Natalya Tsvetnenko. At forty-one, Natalya strives for perfection at whatever she does – whether it is when she is playing classical cello for philharmonic orchestras or when she is the mysterious and exacting Requiem, a hired assassin for Australian mob bosses. She is prepared physically and mentally and expertly skilled at whatever is needed to do her job. Requiem’s victims are often killed unique to their crime or persona – matching her punishment to the victim’s crimes. Whether it is the businessman whom she poisons with a chemical that kills similarly to the deadly banned pesticides he sells or the mob boss who trafficked under-aged girls and was electrocuted via his genitals. (ouch!)

Requiem is hired to kill a woman, Alison Ryan. She is confused because Ryan is unlike her usual mob hits and shouldn’t require an assassin of her caliber or six-figure price tag. She even nicknames Alison “the little mouse”. As Natasha gets to know Alison (and even like her), she is determined to discover who and why someone hired Requiem to kill a mouse.

I highly recommend this book – either read it on your own or if you like audiobooks listen to it. If you haven’t listened to audiobooks this might be a good introduction especially if you like crime mysteries, interesting characters or just good, well written stories.

Edit: I forgot to add: Lee Winter made a collection YouTube videos featuring music mentioned in this book. I made a similar collection/playlist on Spotify. (Not all of her artists were available on Spotify)

Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.Book One in The Law Game series is a dark lesbian thriller with plenty of twists in its tale.

EDIT: sometime ago I made a Spotify playlist of most of the music mentioned in this book. I think there was at least one that wasn’t available on Spotify. Search for Requiem for Immortals - LuceC (or correacreations2) 


This is truly a roller coaster book! And I love roller coasters! You've got the thrills when the assassin Requiem is doing her thing and then you get a breather when the cellist Natalya is around. But then Requiem is hired to kill a mouse, an innocent as near as she can surmise but then the mouse is... I can't say any more. Read the book for an "E ticket" ride. 

(A reference for those old enough to remember when Disneyland had ride tickets)

Jude Silberfeld

Ok, so I think I'm going to need a little while before I can write this review. Wow. Just wow. More later, hopefully.

EDIT (April 24th): So, I know I said I'd write more but I still can't wrap my mind around this one. So here's the review I left on Amazon, where "Wow" wasn't enough ;) 
This is the best book I've read in a long time. And I read a lot. I've read plenty of great books recently, but this one really blew my mind. So much so that I don't know how to explain it. If you're looking for a very well-written thriller with badass lesbian characters, go for it.

Requiem for Immortals

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