The Perfect Wife (An Jessie Hunt Mystery—Book 1)
Suburbia harbors dark secrets in this suspenseful listen! After moving to a swanky new neighborhood, Jessie, a criminal profiler in training, starts to notice things aren’t quite what they seem. Not to mention that the serial killer she’s studying forces her to confront nightmares from her own hidden past…
In THE PERFECT WIFE (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book 1), Criminal profiler-in-training Jessie Hunt is sure she’s finally put the darkness of her childhood behind her. She and her husband, Kyle, just moved from a cramped downtown Los Angeles apartment into a Westport Beach mansion. Kyle’s promotion has them swimming in money. And Jessie is on the verge of getting her Master’s degree in forensic psychology, the last step in her dream of becoming a criminal profiler.
But soon after their arrival, Jessie begins to notice a series of strange developments. The neighbors—and their au pairs—all seem to be hiding secrets. The mysterious yacht club Kyle is desperate to join is rife with cheating spouses, and with troubling rules of its own. And the notorious serial killer being held at the psychiatric hospital where Jessie is completing her degree seems to know more about her life than is normal—or safe.
As her world starts to unravel, Jessie begins to question everything around her—including her own sanity. Has she truly uncovered a disturbing conspiracy buried within a sunny, wealthy Southern California beach town? Does the mass murderer she’s studying really somehow know the origin of her private nightmares?
Or has her tortured past finally come back to claim her?
About Author
Blake Pierce is the USA Today bestselling author of the several mystery series with women detectives. The first book of every series is available as a free download on Amazon!
An avid reader and lifelong fan of the mystery and thriller genres, Blake loves to hear from you, so please feel free to visit www.blakepierceauthor.com to learn more and stay in touch.
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Review
I was on the edge of whether to like it or not while reading this book..
The book is about a married couple who moves to the suburbs because of the husband’s job .. While the wife tries to fit in and misses her old life in the city, husband seem to be enjoying and not being as considerate as he was before ( your first clue) .. Amidst this there is a murder and the who dunnit although it is quite obvious at that point.
There is another parallel story line of the wife’s past where she had to escape from the crutches of a serial killer and somehow this draws her into interviewing the other copycat serial killer with same MO.
Positives :
- The author tries to keep the suspense with two story lines …
- Good vocabulary used in the novel, I learnt many new words…
- The plight of the wives explained is very near to reality and hits spot on to all the married women.
Negatives :
- The book drags on and on for quite a bit in the middle.
- I was a bit annoyed by the constant use of sentence like where the wife says “ She was getting a feeling but could not pinpoint what it was” at many places in the book.
- The twist was a bit expected, I had it figured out halfway through, and I think of myself as pretty naive…\
All in all a good read…
Rating: 3.5/5
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