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Elizabeth Stuckey-French, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady

In The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, seventy-something church lady Marylou Ahearn adopts an alias and moves to Tennessee to be near the man she's decided to kill. She's got her reasons: Dr. Wilson Spriggs did something awful to her some sixty years before.

But killing the old man isn't as easy as she'd expected, and in the process of getting herself in position to do the deed, she winds up insinuating herself into the lives of his family members. Spriggs lives with his daughter and son-in-law and their three children, two of whom have Asperger's.

No one in the family is particularly happy, for various reasons, so Marylou has a lot of material to play with when she waltzes into their lives.

This was a fun, light read, and it was satisfying when things fell into place rather tidily at the end. But I never felt like I was reading about potentially real people, and I was never emotionally invested, so I suspect it will ultimately be a forgettable read. Nothing wrong with that, though.

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