Review: Don't let the title scare you
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2011
The Ladies Temperance Club is made up of three middle-aged women who have been friends for years and share a love of wine and hatred of Jack Thibideau, the man Vonda has been putting up with for years.  Jack, an insurance scam artist and good for nothing worm on practically every level, had convinced hard partying Vonda that when she lost her job as a flight attendant to make room for younger ladies years ago, that she was no longer marketable to other men.  When Jack suggests he'd rather have his skull caved in than say hi to her friends---the hate is mutual--she takes him up on his offer, finally reaching the end of her rope with him.What else are friends for than to cover your back?  Francine and Kay take charge of cleaning up the scene and the ladies dump Jack's body in the specially designed chest freezer that's in the basement of the large expensive RV Jack owns, and hit the road to get far away from the area to dump the body.  So begins a hilarious adventure.The police are looking for Jack due to twenty-seven insurance scam warrants.  Fish, a repo man/bounty hunter/lawyer and his two employees are sent by the bank to repossess the RV and set out on their Harleys, following the credit card trail.  We also follow their hijinks.A friend enthusiastically told me I had to read this book that she'd found by accident.  If she hadn't gushed about it, I'm sorry to say I wouldn't have looked beyond the book's title, and would have missed out on a very good read.  I was immediately sucked in by the characters and am happy to say this extends through so many we meet throughout the book; the characters come alive.  The situations they encounter and how they deal with it, both the women and the men, are flat out fun to read about.I was thrown a little bit by trying to figure out how old the women are.  They are considered middle-aged but would appear to be in their early sixties based on the year one of them graduated.  It isn't until the end of the book that you realize the story took place before the housing market tanked, putting them in their fifties.At thirty percent into the book I called my friend to thank her for the recommendation.  At fifty percent I was calling my sister to tell her she had to read this.  I'd love to see this made into a movie.