The Perfect Husband (FBI Profiler, #1) (G. K. Hall Mystery)

by Lisa Gardner

Jim Beckett was everything Tess had ever dreamed of ...But two years after Tess married Jim, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the killer has escaped, and Tess has got to learn to fight back. With the help of a burned out ex-marine, Tess learns how to protect herself as a gigantic manhunt, crossing four states, counts down to this terrifying reunion between husband and wife.

• ISBN10: 0783884133
• ISBN13: 9780783884134
• Publish Date: 1 April 1998 (first published 1 December 1997)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 1 July 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thorndike Press
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 472
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cameron Trost]

I couldn't really get into this book. The premise is hardly original, but it could have been used to write a good suspense story with atmosphere, engaging characters, and a twist or two. I found the story slow, repetitive, and bogged down in details. The dialogue was uninteresting and the characters stereotypical and unlikeable. Most of the numerous action scenes seemed thrown in to spice things up every now and then. It would have worked better as a Hollywood film script than a novel. I guess it depends on tastes. This book has popular appeal. There are hundreds of rave reviews and it appears the author is a bestseller.

[mitabird]

3.5 stars