Review: The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner

The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Published: 2004

Theresa Beckett is a wife and mother. What she didn't realize about her husband was that he was a serial killer. Finally caught and behind bars, Theresa thinks she has nothing to worry about until Jim, her husband escapes from prison. Unable to be helped by the police since Jim used to be one himself, she is forced to find other ways to protect herself from the husband that is so desperate to kill her. Changing her name to Tess, she goes across the country, seeking the help of mercenary J.T. a former marine who has enough of his own issues to worry about to help a housewife. Will J.T. be able to help her or will her husband find her and finish the job he wasn't able to finish, two year ago.

I read this book as part of a buddy read. With both had this book on our TBR for a while, but hadn't read it yet. I've read a few other books by Lisa Gardner and usually enjoy what she writes. This book, just didn't do it for me though. I'm not sure if this is because it was one of her earlier books or what, but it was slow moving, not very interesting and took far too long to get through. We both felt similar about this book.

What would you do if you found out your husband was a serial killer and he wouldn't be done with his killing spree until you were dead? I know I would do everything I could to hide from him and never be seen again. But for Tess, she wants revenge or something. She thinks she can train herself to beat this man, when no police force, FBI or any other law enforcement agency has been able to do it. This book was not what I was expecting and the story seemed to jump all over the place.

I will read more books by Lisa Gardner, but this one just didn't work for me.

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Review: Look for Me by Lisa Gardner

Look for Me by Lisa Gardner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

DD Warren is trying to find out who has killed the Baez family. Mother, Justine; her boyfriend, Charlie; her youngest daughter, Lola; and her only son, Manny. But there is another child, Roxanna, as well as two dogs, Rosie and Blaze. Where are they? Did Roxanna do this to her family? If so, why? But Roxy was the protector of the family. Her mom is a recovering alcoholic and when she was drinking Roxy made sure her siblings ate and made it to school. When the state took the kids away from Justine for a year, this role for Roxy became more prominent. After that year, the girls were never the same. Did something happen during their year in foster care that could have warranted this kind of violence? Will DD be able to find the person or people responsible for this before more people are killed? Will her new CI, Flora Dane prove to be helpful or detrimental to this case?

Thank you to NetGalley and Dutton Books for the opportunity to read and review this book.

When I made the request from NetGalley for this book, I was intrigued by the description and didn't know that this was the 9th book in the series. I don't think that I needed to read the entire series to get into this book, but I'm sure the background on some of the characters would have been helpful. So, I'm definitely going to go back now and read the rest of the series.

Can you imagine coming home and finding your whole family dead? Your younger sister clutching your brother in order to protect him from a crazy killer? How do you come back from that? Over the course of a few days Detective DD Warren is trying to find out who could do such a thing to this family. With the help of confidential informant, Flora Dane, will they be able to find the killer as well as find Roxana before it's too late. Who would want to hurt these people? What did they do? So many questions and the answers can't come fast enough, until they all do come crashing into one another in one fell swoop.

I can't wait to read more books in this series.

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