Dead Cat Tail Assassins

Eveen is an undead killer in the city of Tal Abisi. She belongs to the Dead Cat Tails, assassins who gave their afterlife to Aeril, the goddess known as the Matron of Assassins. In return, their memories were stripped away and their bodies remade as weapons.

The Tails live by three rules: a contract must be just, only the named target may be killed, and an accepted job must be finished. When Eveen receives a contract on a girl named Sky, she takes it for routine work. Then she sees her target, and memories she gave up come back to her, which should not be possible.

Sky may be a version of Eveen, displaced across time. The job that looked like a simple heist of a life becomes a whodunit. The two women have to work out who holds enough power to steer one of the goddess's own killers into a contract she was never meant to carry out.

The book is fantasy with a murder-mystery frame, and it opens with a job that goes wrong at the first sight of the target. Expect a city of hired killers, a puzzle about identity, and a hunt for a manipulator who sits above a goddess's assassin.