Three books in a series by Charlaine Harris (of Sookie Stackhouse fame) who always delivers!!
I started An Easy Death after I finished News of the World for my book club. I wasn't sure about it at first but then Ms Harris worked her magic and I became absorbed.
The Russian Cage is book 3 and I have just started it. Like all of her books they move fast and have great characters. The books are a combination of paranormal and alternative history which are two of my favorite things.
Synopsis of An Easy Death In a fractured United States, a new world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards. Lizbeth Rose has a wildly fearsome reputation but these wizards are desperate. Searching the small border towns near Mexico, they’re trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner believed to be a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin.
As the trio journey through an altered America—shattered into several countries after the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression—they’re set on by enemies. It’s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth Rose has never failed a client, but this job may stretch her to her deadly limits.
A Longer Fall In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job. She is tasked with transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.
I have the first 4 books but I am going to have to wait for the price to drop on the last two.
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