Till Death, or a Little Light Maiming, Do Us Part

Lette (The Revenge Club) delivers a tiresome tale about three women taking revenge on a philandering con man. Sixty-year-old Brisbane resident Gwen Brookes has been happily married to the sexy, attentive Jason for two years. When Gwen learns that Jason has been attacked by a shark while training for an Ironman triathlon, she’s devastated—all that remains is his swimming cap and a piece of torn, blood-stained wetsuit. Her mourning becomes complicated when jazz singer Tish Delaney shows up waving her marriage certificate and claiming she is Jason’s actual widow. The pair visit Jason’s lawyer, who indicates that he may not be dead at all, but in Cairo with another woman. Gwen and Tish set off for Egypt, where they meet Skye, wife number three, who’s also been scammed and left behind, and the trio hatch a plan to make Jason pay. As the women race through the Maldives, Tanzania, and across Europe, they uncover new layers to Jason’s deceit at every turn. Lette smothers her amusing premise with corny one-liners (“The rooms we shared were so small the cockroaches were hunch-backed”) and slack pacing. This falls short of the zippy farce it aspires to be. (Oct.)