One of the realities of Josie’s new life, however, is that by working solo she doesn’t have the support she had in the past, which makes flying under the radar more difficult. Her love and devotion to Gene is lovely to see (especially since he’s so clueless about who she is and what she is capable of), and little interactions with her daughters shows the fierce love she has for them and keeping them safe, be it from physical dangers or loutish, inappropriate men and their ‘humor’. I love seeing Josie interact with both her targets and her family. Even hit women need to juggle it all, and have certain facades to maintain just as many women today feel a need to do so. The duality of an ideal 1960s housewife and a cold blooded killer is both hysterical, but a bit barbed as well.

By day she throws cocktail parties and barbecues, by night she’s killing targets. Schuller) has moved to Florida, and Josie is working as a free agent assassin as well as maintaining the role of a perfect homemaker. Now she and her family (consisting of her husband Gene, her twin daughters Jane and Jessica, and her suspicious mother in law Mrs. When we left Josie she had broken ties from the group that hired her on as an assassin. But the strength of her character lies within her complexity, and her multifaceted life and personality makes her an intriguing and fascinating protagonist, and I was excited to see where the choices she made in the previous book took her. Assassin Housewife Josie Schuller was a character that went above and beyond my expectations in the initial tale, an archetype that could have easily fallen into sex kitten kitsch lie so many other ‘badass’ women before her (Harley Quinn, anyone?). Given that I enjoyed the first volume of “Lady Killer” by Joëlle Jones, it was a long and difficult wait for “Volume 2” to finally come out. The story ended with another surprise visitor so I am looking forward to the next volume to find out what Josie is going to do next. Unfortunately her husband learns more about Josie than she would have liked and at the end of the book it’s not certain whether her marriage will survive. This mayhem is offset by Josie’s dark humor as she tries to maintain a balance between her home life and her work like. This was another gorgeously illustrated story, but still with very high levels of violence and gore. Irving fights back and endangers Josie and her entire family. At first this seems an ideal plan but after finding out more details about Irving, Josie decides to dissolve their partnership. She will do the killing and he will do the disposing.

She is surprised when an old friend turns up and offers to go into partnership with her. Josie is now working on her own, but finding disposing of the bodies difficult. This volume opens by letting us know that Josie and her family have relocated to Florida.

Lady Killer, Volume 1 by Joëlle Jones