The Old Woman with the Knife

More like 3.5 stars.
Hornclaw is 65 and still on the job. That's not unusual. What is unusual is that she is an assassin. Most interesting to me was her relationship with her elderly dog, Deadweight, and the history of the “disease control specialists”. When her past comes back to haunt her (well, to kill her) she has to get to the bottom of it.
This was just okay. It wasn't sweet enough to be cute. It wasn't violent enough to be a real thriller. It has revealing things to say about how we treat our elderly.
That said, I feel like there are many cozy mystery series doing the same thing already and I've probably accidentally read a lot of those so none of this was new ground for me-except that we are in Korea.