Jilling — Lawrence Block

In her fifth appearance, “Waitress Wanted,” Kit Tolliver had to leave Phoenix in a hurry. She'd had sex with her boss, and that sealed his fate; the guy had about as much survival potential as a male Black Widow spider.

Now she's in Washington State, renting a room in a comfortable suburban house, and ready to hook up with one of the men on her list. A Chicagoan, he slept with her a couple of years ago in New York, and got out of town before she could seal the deal. And now he's right here in Kirkland, and he doesn't know it, but he's about to get lucky. Except the clown doesn't seem interested.

Meanwhile, Kit's landlady is shaping up as the BFF Kit never had, and one night they open a bottle of wine and start telling stories...

All of Kit's homicidal (and increasingly erotic) adventures are collected in book form in Getting Off. Or read the next installment, “Conjugal Rites” (Kit Tolliver #7).