Everything you need to understand or teach The Love Killers by Jackie Collins.
Regular fans of Collins will find the familiar female character types in The Love Killers: the five B's — the brain, the bitch, the baby, the bombshell, and the bimbo. Cass Long, "a short, untidy-looking woman, with cropped brown hair and a cheerful disposition," is the brain in that she has little sex appeal and serves as the secretary and assistant to Margaret and the "avengers." Rio Java is the bitch: "over six feet tall . . . starvation thin, with a long dramatic face, shaved eyebrows, and exotic makeup . . . part Cherokee Indian and part Louisiana hillbilly [who] lived her life exactly as she pleased." The baby is the ingenue Beth Brown, "twenty, . . . clear-skinned and fair haired, with hair that hung straight and thick, reaching below her waist. She was a very pretty girl. Her face had a childlike innocence, with large blue eyes and a wide, soft mouth." Lara Crichton...