Motives for murder are many and varied, apart from open warfare and accidental this is usually for personal gain in some way. It could be money, prestige, love hate or the need to satisfy some brutal perversion, but in the end one dies and one gains. However within this group of dealers in death the one that stands out most is the hired assassin, the hit man --- or woman.

The latter are the rarer but also the more deadly, especially if she’s beautiful and of high intelligence. Such women have been known to kill their quarry by stealthier means than a brutal assassination, and still remain within the law of the land. But then, if this is accomplished who can brand them as killers?