Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>remember correctly, Liza Cody's Anna Lee was a pretty
tough little
>cookie, in a hard-bitten Brit sorta way, certainly
not the soft,
>warm, gooey at the centre, friend to all living
things creature too
>many female-written female eyes try to be.
Cody's Eva Wylie makes Anna Lee seem soft by comparison. Eva
is not a PI, though she is in security of sorts -- she's the
night guard, along with two nasty dogs, of a junkyard. Her
chosen profession is wrestling, but she's not a jiggling WWF
bimbo. She's big and ugly. When she needs a vehicle, she
steals it.
Another tough babe with a high-powered sex drive is Sherry,
the protag in Vicki Hendricks's Miami Purity. I doubt she'll
be back in another book, but maybe Hendricks can give us
another tough character.
As for male writers, I'd like to see Lansdale do more with
Brett Sawyer.
Mark
Mark Troy http://www.tamu.edu/marshome/staff_pages/murder.html
http://www.tamu.edu/marshome/staff_pages/Mark.html
Kill Leader, Plots With Guns, Winter 2000 Homewreckers,
Nefarious - Tales of Mystery, December 1999 The Montressor
Hit, Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Fall 1999 Winner of
the Edgar Allen Poe Sesquicentennial Homage Award
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