“I’ll take care,” I said, holding up the only little mirror Chrissie had.

“You want it so short I think the sun might get your scalp.” “You better wear you a hat so your head won’t get all red and tender,” Chrissie said. It was only spring now, but it would be the hot season soon. “It gets all sweaty and sticks to my neck,” I said. When she was halfway done, she said, “Why you want to cut all this off? It’s so pretty.”

She sang as she worked, in her sweet, high voice, and she told me about her youngest one’s adventures with a frog in the creek. My neighbor Chrissie was not too bright, but I’d watched her trim her husband’s hair and beard as he sat on a stool outside their cabin. That morning I was pleased to get rid of my hair. I never saw Galilee bored or idle.īut I didn’t have to be at Martin’s until late that afternoon, so I was doing whatever I pleased. Or she would be cleaning her little house, or washing her clothes. Galilee would be watching Martin, because they had started seeing each other before and after work. Tarken and Martin would be tinkering with the truck, which was our livelihood. In the morning I got Chrissie to cut off all my hair. “Immersive, involving, suspenseful and intriguing, with a main character you’ll love” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author), An Easy Death is a fast-paced thriller of the highest order. Lizbeth Rose has never failed a client, but this job may stretch her to her deadly limits. It’s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. 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.Īs 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. Lizbeth Rose has a wildly fearsome reputation but these wizards are desperate. 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. From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, comes “a gripping, twisty-turny, thrill ride of a read” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) following a young gunslinging mercenary on deadly mission through the American Southwest.

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