The Perfect Match

by Jodi Picoult

Assistant DA Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters, and in the course of her everyday work she endures the frustration of seeing too many criminals slip through the system and walk free. So when she realises that her son Nathaniel has been sexually abused - and is so traumatised that he has stopped speaking - she takes justice into her own hands. Nina Frost may have killed the man who hurt her son, but has she destroyed her family in the process? And whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

• ISBN10: 0340897201
• ISBN13: 9780340897201
• Publish Date: 12 September 2005 (first published 30 April 2002)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 18 June 2007
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leah]

This was yet another fantastic read from Jodi Picoult. I am slowly making my way through the books I haven’t read by her and I got a whole bunch from the library that included Perfect Match.

What I love about Jodi’s books is that she really makes you care about her characters - what Nina does is absolutely wrong, but her reasons for doing it are absolutely sound. I wasn’t against her at all - you have to do what you have to do for your family. It obviously wasn’t all plain sailing, with other things coming out, but I was on Nina’s side the whole damn time.

It is one of my biggest frustrations that the court system in any country (particularly in the UK, though) cannot adequately punish somebody for a crime. Sexual abuse should be a life sentence without parole and I don’t care who that offends. Ditto murder and manslaughter and people who kill other people by accident (car accidents etc). So I felt a sense of justice by what Nina did, whether it was right or wrong.

This was yet another brilliant, gripping read and I’m very excited to dive into another one of her backlist titles.