Books with saucy female leads

[Vanfurgstan]

Can someone suggest some books with fierce women. Also fun ones, nothing sad
Thanks

Jeanette Winterston books come to mind - fierce and adventurous women.

The Observations by Jane Harris has a quirky female narrator with a dry turn of phrase .. really good book.

Jaz Parkes series by Jennifer thing.
Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs, and also her Alpha and Omega series.
Mercy (who does the Press) series by Toni Andrews I think it's Andrews
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series.
Forever Amber.
Cathy Kelly's stuff but not the most recent three or four. She completely changed her style and her latest few are dreadful.

The 'Outlander' series of novels with the amazing Claire Fraser as main character
(Start with 'Cross Stitch')

Time travelling nurse/surgeon with a 20th century mouth in a 18th century frock! in the scottish wilds, with swords and stuff!

(It might be time travel but its so not geeky)

V I Warshawski?

Moll Flanders

Janet Evanovich books - character is Stephanie Plum.

Dora Damage is quite good fun.

Not sure if it's what you're after but have read Anita Blake series and Meredith Gentry series recently, it involves a lot of sex, although it is as part of the storyline, one is about fae creatures, not sad but quite a lot of blood too, the other is about a necromancer, vampires, werewolves, were leopards etc? Easy to read, but in a more "yeah you kick that evil so and so's ass before he kills you and those you love" as opposed to "hehehe, that really made me chuckle".