Shelley Blanton-Stroud guest post for Literary Hub's Crime Reads

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

It’s easiest to like difficult woman characters when their difficulty is a direct result of crimes or other tragedies they’ve survived. They’ve earned their difficulty, like Charles Portis’s Mattie Ross in True Grit. Or when they’re difficult in defense of children.

But what kind of woman is unlikeably difficult?

A selfish, ambitious woman.

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