Give Me Ladies With Blood On Their Hands

[redbrunja]

Does anyone have recommendations for books about bad girls? Girls who are not nice? Who prioritize their survival over other people?

Because I was reading the opening of Keturah and Lord Death and when I got to the part (about four pages in, so not a spoiler) where Death tells the heroine that he’ll spare her if she names someone she’s prefer to die in her place and she’s like, ‘oh, no, I couldn’t possibly!’ and I’m like, ‘BOOM, DONE WITH YOU, POLLYANNA.’ It could have been anyone! It could have been someone she hated! Someone she barely new! Sweet jesus, I can think of five people who I’d be willing to trade for my life WITHIN THIRTY SECONDS.

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[kerrykhat.livejournal.com]

Maybe Tara Chace from the Queen and Country novels by Greg Rucka? She's a spy, she kills people for a living, and she doesn't apologize for it. She's good at her job, and if her job is an assassination, she'll do it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the library only has electronic versions!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

See if they have Shooting at Midnight by Rucka. It's a mystery novel/thriller that's part of his series about a male bodyguard named Atticus Kodiak but it's partially told from the perspective of his badass on/off-again girlfriend Bridgett Logan. Bridgett's a former junkie who agrees to go back on the streets/into the drug life because of a promise made to a friend. When she disappears into that life, Atticus starts investigating and her twin sister, a pretty badass NUN, gets involved in the investigation too.

Bridgett is one of my favorite female characters of all time, but ALL of Rucka's ladies are strong, awesome peeps.

Also, you might like the Beauty Killer series by Chelsea Cain about a female serial killer and the cop she's pulled into her thrall. Heartsick is the first (I think) and it's really good. I got a little sick of the series by book 3 or 4 but Gretchen Lowell is pretty twisted and her relationship with the lead is sickly compelling.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Of course the library doesn't have it! Still, I put that on my amazon wish list. Also, I think I've read one of those books with Atticus Kodiak when I was WAY too young for it.

Bridgett is one of my favorite female characters of all time, but ALL of Rucka's ladies are strong, awesome peeps.

Truth!

And I'll check out the Beauty Killer series - that sounds really, really fun.