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This 4-book series had a good strong start with the first book but after that, I found every next book more disappointing than the last. How the series is described, first of all, is inaccurate. The hero doesn't go around killing men who have disappointed women. Mostly she finds criminals and hands them over to the cops, while not working for or with them. What else she does do is intimidate, often by petty violence, men of all sorts who she thinks are obstructing her movement in whatever direction she wants to go, whether it's important or the ice cream aisle in the convenience store. Believe it or not, treating men with the same contempt you think they've treated you is not liberation. I found the protagonist increasingly obnoxious and, by the end of the series, was desperately hoping someone would put a hit on her. The narrator reads with what she believes is a southern drawl but she reads by bunching a number of sentences together into a tight little ball and then hurling that ball of words at the listener. By the second book, I could literally feel her sneering through the text. I give the author's interpretation of feminism and sexual orientation some leeway since the books were published early in the 21st century but even with that leeway, too many of the ideas she expresses are not only passé but damaging.

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