Leave it to Charlaine Harris to put a supernatural spin on a Western genre novel in her An Easy Death (#852) and make it work. This book came out in 2018, and the expectation is that Gunnie Lizbeth Rose will be the lead character in a new series set in an alternative America broken into large and largely lawless territories, where a professional gunslinger for hire can be a lucrative profession if one lives long enough.
After Lizbeth's crew is killed on the job, Gunnie picks up the mission by herself and completes it successfully. Sitting at home isn't paying the bills, though, so when an opportunity to act as guide and bodyguard for a couple of Russian wizards searching Texoma for another Russian wizard comes along, Lizbeth isn't in a position to refuse it, despite her feelings about the grigori.
It's an exciting trek through sparse country with danger lurking behind every rock and tumbleweed, not least from her clients themselves. Gunnie is very young, but she's had to learn fast. The fate of the Holy Russian Empire is up for grabs and Lizbeth, unbeknownst to her clients, has a very personal stake in it all.
I'm not usually a reader of Westerns, but I did enjoy this book with its familiar landscape and touches of magic. Chances are, if you liked Sookie Stackhouse in Ms. Harris' True Blood series, you'll embrace Gunnie Rose.
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