Gunnie means gunslinger/mercenary, and Lizbeth Rose is a good one, despite being only 19. Her stepfather taught her to shoot, and she used her training to kill her father, whose family are affiliated with the Holy Russian Empire, land known in our timeline as California and Oregon.

FDR was the last president and an influenza reconfigured the former United States. (This book was published in 2019, if you're wondering, based on the flu backstory) Lizbeth lives in Texoma and is half-Mexican as well as half-Russian.

There's decent world-building and a lot of killing. Even people who are thought dead sometimes need killing again, so if you don't love gratuitous murder, An Easy Death may not be your jam. It's not like I'm a big murder fan--I'm sensitive!--but I was still engaged and non-judgmental throughout. You have to admire Lizbeth's grit.

The one element of the novel I really didn't like was the love story, even if it's consummation was prefaced in a funny way.

He had a few rubbers, which just proved that men were natural optimists when it came to opportunity.

Hey, I'm going down to into Mexico with my big-sister grigori, and we're traveling through hick towns on a desperate secret mission. I may get killed. But who knows? I might also have a chance to have sex.