An Easy Death

 An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris, 336 pages

Gunnie Lizbeth Rose works as an armed escort and smuggler in Texoma, one of the countries that was left after Deconstruction. She has good reason not to trust any of the Grigoris from the Holy Russian Empire (located along the west coast of what used to be America), but she still finds herself accepting a job from the magicians to help guide them to a man they need for reasons they refuse to specify. The party is hounded by assassins the whole way to Mexico, and it doesn't make things any easier that not a single person here is telling the whole truth.

This was an exciting adventure book, but honestly I found the alternate history elements the most interesting. After the assassination of FDR and a whole parade of other disasters in rapid succession, America fractured into five different countries, in addition to the expansion of Mexico and Canada. I thought everything came together into a book that is just fun and interesting enough to keep me hooked, and I'll probably read more in this series just to see how it plays out.