The Perfect Husband
by:
Lisa Gardner (author)
What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security...
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What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, 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 cunning killer has escaped—and the most dangerous game of all begins....After a lifetime of fear, Tess will do something she's never done before. She's going to learn to protect her daughter and fight back, with the help of a burned-out ex-marine. As the largest manhunt four states have ever seen mobilizes to catch Beckett, the clock winds down to the terrifying reunion between husband and wife. And Tess knows that this time, her only choices are to kill—or be killed.Lisa Gardner sold her first novel when she was 20 years old. In 1993 she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in international relations. She lives in Rhode Island, where she is at work on her next novel of suspense.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553576801 (0553576801)
ASIN: 553576801
Publish date: December 1st 1997
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 402
Edition language: English
Series: Quincy & Rainie (#1)
The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner Book 1 of Quincy & Rainie series Summary Blurb: What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer? Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put hi...
Lisa Gardner is a genius. She somehow manages to take a set of circumstances that are unbelievable and make you believe them. Her plots a complicated without ever being confusing, intricate without ever being boring. This is what romantic suspense should look like.
Tess Williams, after a dismal childhood, found herself married to the "perfect husband" who turned out to be her biggest nightmare. After discovering he was responsible for the murder of at least ten women, Tess helped in his capture. Now he's escaped from prison and she knows his ultimate goal is t...
*Rating* 4 Creme Filled Donuts*Genre* Mystery/Thriller/Romance*Review*The Perfect Husband is the first book in what is supposed to be the Quincy/Raine series by Lisa Gardner. FBI profiler Pierce Quincy does play a small part in this series, but it is Theresa (Tess) Williams and J.T. Dillon that the ...
Even when you marry someone there's a chance that you never really know them.