Looking for villainous heroes/heroines

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How about Perfume by Patrick Suskind? A mix of historical, romance and horror, it’s superbly written and genuinely chilling in parts. I found the character Grenouille one of the most intriguing gothic anti-hero’s since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s monster.

Another book I’ve enjoyed, this time featuring the morally ambiguous heroine familiar to Dark Shadows fans, is Angelique’s Descent by Lara Parker.