I’m Jessica Payne, the author of Somebody Worth Killing, its (soon to be announced!) sequel, and four other psychological thrillers. I live in Washington State, where I write fun, funny, feminist books.

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Somebody Worth Killing is out now!

NEWS: Somebody Worth Killing will have a sequel! Tentative publication date is September 2027. More details soon!

Somebody Worth Killing

Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big secret: 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.