by Elizabeth Stuckey-French. Revenge is a dish best served cold-and after 50 years, Marylou Ahearn's dish is just about properly chilled. Once the unwitting subject of an experiment in radio-activity, brokenhearted and bitter Marylou sets out to avenge the dire consequences of that same study. Her target? Dr. Wilson Spriggs, the man who engineered and oversaw the experiment that eventually ruined Marylou's life. Dr. Spriggs now lives in a cheerful, innocuous Florida suburb with his daughter and her family and has what appears to be an idyllic life. With vengeance in her heart, Marylou adopts a fake persona and moves in on the doctor's life, offering friendship, with an actual intent to kill. But she soon discovers that the lives of Dr. Spriggs and his family are far from perfect, and, what's more, she rather likes them, in all their dysfunctional glory, making her task difficult to carry out. VERDICT Mixing the suburban angst of Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher) with the snarky humor of Carl Hiaasen (Stormy Weather), Stuckey-French (Mermaids on the Moon) has written a page-turner that is thoughtful, amusing, and nearly impossible to put down. --Library Journal
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