The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel Kindle Edition

I really liked this book a lot. It's the first Lisa Gardner book I've read. A little mystery a little romance.

Not even close to what I had originally anticipated, but I definitely found it interesting! It was worth the read. 😉

I just re-read The Perfect Husband which I first read some 25 years ago. Lisa Gardner may be the best mystery writer alive right now. This was her first Quinn book. I am not sure if it was her very first book but 25 years ago, she knew what she was doing. The book is incredible and holds up perfectly after all of these years. The sex scenes. Did I love them? No. Were they necessary? Yes. This book is about people who are drowning in sorrow and pain and hate. Even when they make love, there is anguish and pain which is what makes the scenes so compelling.Lisa Garder is the Master. I have read, I think, everything she has written and she never fails to amaze me with her talent. This is a great book.

Gripping, great story telling. A suspenseful tale of manipulation, love and horror. Love the characters.Lisa Gardner does it again! Can't wait to read what's next!

I read Perfect Husband on my Kindle, and since I'm new to Lisa Gardner, I don't know in what order she's written her books. Halfway through Perfect Husband, I suspected that this was one of her earlier novels. While her current novels are suspense with a capital "S", this novel is more of a romance novel than anything.So the plot is, Tess, a young woman who wakes up to find the prince charming she married is actually a sadistic man, and worse yet, he's a serial killer. All Tess gained from leaving her abusive father to marry the man of her dreams, is a change of address, and now being trapped in a relationship with a man who kills beautiful, young blondes like herself. Talk about being scared.In respect to Jim Beckett, the husband/serial killer, he's just about the most fascinating killer ever set down on a page. The trouble I had was that his motives were never explained. As evil as Beckett was, we are never privy as to how he got so evil. Now that would have been an intriguing story.Tess, runs from the safe-house the police set up for her after her husband finds her and attempts to kill her. She leaves her 4 year-old daughter with the police to seek out J.T., a man floundering from his own demons, who just might be as troubled as Tess' husband, only instead if taking out his angst on the world, J.T. takes it out on himself. He's an interesting character study. Why does abuse send one person into a world of expressing that hurt on others, while it sends another into rescue mode?There were so many 'bodice-ripper' episodes, that pretty soon I just started skipping over them. Not to offend any romance readers, I certainly spent more than a few years gobbling them up myself, but suspense is my thing now, and usually Gardner is superb. Not that I won't read the rest of her work, because she's so good I can't resist.

It's really 3.5 for me.After reading Catch Me, I was impressed with the book, especially with the connection to Gardner's other characters like Pierce & Kimberley Quincy, Roan Griffin, and even J.T Dillon and Tess Williams. So, I decided to read the first book of the FBI Profiler series.The Perfect Husband is about a young woman named Tess Williams and Marine turned Merc named J.T Dillon. Tess was once married too a man named Jim Beckett, who seemed like "The Perfect Husband" at first. A handsome police officer who never hit her and took her away from her abusive father and married her. But then he started becoming psychologically abusive. He killed at least ten women before being taken down by Tess and going to prison. Now he's out and has set his sights on Tess, to finish off what he started. J.T Dillon is a drunken mess. He is reluctant to help Tess at first but eventually gives in. He and his sister, FBI Agent Marion MacAllister have a lot of unresolved personal baggage, mainly involving their father and somewhat involving J.T's wife, Rachel and adopted son Teddy. Meanwhile Special Agent Pierce Quincy is working with the Massachusetts authorities to help in the manhunt to find Jim Beckett, but will Jim get his revenge, or will Tess and J.T be ready to taken on mad methodical psychopath.A crucial note: This is book marked a transition of genres for Lisa Gardner, and it is evidently clear in the amount of sex. There is nothing wrong with that, but some of it kind of feels like distraction when it's supposed to character development. Three of the key characters are very traumatized to the point where they act irrationally. It can be annoying, but also understandable. Sometimes victims of trauma aren't rational people.As for positives, I can honestly say that I did like it when the pace picked up now and then and got exiting. The climax is a memorable one, but some might say that the last line spoken by [SPOILER] might sound a little corny.Overall, I give it a 3.5. I think that Pierce Quincy was an interesting character (I see Hotch from Criminal Minds) and that Jim Beckett is a memorable villain, but a lot of the times, the pacing feels kind of slow, but there was a lot of really good backstory for many of the principal characters. You might get emotional by the end of this. I know I did.

I couldn't put this book down it was great n grizzly n that husband was such an a******!!! If u like mystery n grizzly books you gotta read this!!

Lisa has done it again. I feel as though I was there and new each of the characters personally. I could not leave the book alone. She is a literary genius.

Excellent from start to finish.Really recommend this book.

Excellent thriller, no unnecessarily described bed scenes (as far as I remember)

Primeiro livro da série é ótimo! Mesmo para mim que comecei a ler fora de ordem!

No credible characters, no mystery, no suspense. A pointless waste of time.