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Criminal profiler in training (and newlywed) Jessie Hunt, 29, discovers that dark secrets lurk in her new suburban town; when a body turns up dead, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of her newfound friends, her husband’s secrets, her serial killer caseload—and the secrets of her own dark past.

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.”

—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)

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In THE PERFECT WIFE (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book One), 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?

Books #2--#24 are also available!

A fast-paced psychological suspense thriller with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding suspense, THE PERFECT WIFE is book #1 in a riveting new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07JYC69YM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (November 13, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 855 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 199 pages
Reviewer: Samantha
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wooow!
Review: Read this in two days. I couldn't put it down. Every chapter ended with a cliffhanger and the last sentence of the book has me falling back in my chair. So much suspense and so much going on while still keeping everything in line and order. This was a great read and definitely eager to continue the series. Highly recommend reading!

Reviewer: mya e
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Recommended read!!
Review: Great book! Quick Read! Fun genre! Well written and definitely kept me hooked. The ending of what was going on felt a little rushed and a bit forced but overall the overall ending was quite the story. Definitely will be purchasing book 2!

Reviewer: filisha johnson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: wow! let me catch my breath!
Review: I loved her writing style. There was so much going on in this book. So many stories wrapped into one. The ending left me speechless and ready for the next book!

Reviewer: anyone
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really good book
Review: The first book I read by this author and will read more. I like that it wasn’t a long book but kept my interest which is way better than a book that goes on and on going nowhere.

Reviewer: BookLover1013
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not Enough
Review: I have read a lot of "middle-of-the-road" books lately. I haven't found one that wowed me but hoped this would be it. It wasn't. Just as Jessie, the main character, feels a continual niggling that something isn't right, but she can't put her finger on it- so too, did I feel that way when reading the story. I kept thinking; I should like this more than I do, why don't I?It had elements lined up and capable of building a great tale, but everything and every person seemed superficial. I didn't know Jessie's husband enough to decide what kind of person he'd been before they'd moved or how he'd changed- other than Jessie's statements about how he'd changed. When he stays out at a nightclub instead of coming home for a planned dinner and fails even to call and inform Jessie that he wouldn't make it, and when she catches him using drugs, these actions are supposedly far out of character. The little community wrapped around a "yacht club" covering for prostitution felt too far-fetched. If even one wife knew what was going at that place, and all the wives gathered there for family-type functions mingling with these skimpily-clad "waitresses," I can't believe it. Not a single woman decided to cut her losses, divorce the husband, take half of everything, and escape that place? They all traded their dignity for some extra cash. Not acceptable. This whole plot point took up too much of the story, in my opinion. The backstory about her near-death experience and becoming a profiler, dealing with Crutchfield, were more interesting but less emphasized.Two key facts were easily deduced. With the word "Junebug," I knew the relationship the serial killer of Jessie's past held with her. When Jessie woke up in the locked cabin with Natalia, I predicted how the rest of the story would play out. There wasn't enough foreshadowing of characters to make it plausible. A couple of short interrogations by Jessie about Kyle's past, and BOOM- this guy's deemed a maniac. She's a brilliant student who will be a top-notch profiler, but she lived with a guy for ten years and had no clues, no hints, no suspicions, NOTHING gave her pause about him.The interviews with Crutchfield were way out there. I would accept that he'd known things about Jessie's past because he'd considered the serial killer who'd kidnapped her as a child his mentor, and he'd interacted with that person. I could not believe he'd take one look at her in the present and guess she was pregnant, or that she thought her husband cheated on her, or that she felt guilty about something she wasn't positive she'd done.I would describe this as a bundle of good ideas that could have been better if executed differently. I may read the next book in the series to see if it gets better, but I'm not chomping at the bit to get to it.

Reviewer: jazmyn mizzero
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read!
Review: I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would bc it was a free audiobook. It turned out to be a 4 star read. I think the plot was well thought of, it was fun anf trusted and a bit predictable halfway through but it was still good and entertaining. I did feel like the ending was a bit rushed and a little bit forced but I def need book 2 to follow whats going on with Jessie and her “father”. If you like psychological thrillers I’d give this book a try you might like it!

Reviewer: Crystal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fun read
Review: A page turner! Read it in two days. A read as easy as it was thrilling.. but I can't not read the next one now! Onward...

Reviewer: Becky H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great story kept me guessing till the end!
Review: Enjoyed this story with the many twists and turns. Gave me a Silence of The Lambs vibe when Jessie visited Crutchfield in prison. Enjoyed e dry but if it to the very end. Total twist but loved putting the pieces together at the end!Great story looking forward to the next book in the series!

Reviewer: Anita Hildebrandt
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I really enjoyed this book. A lot going on and at a good clip. Some books are very "wordy" but not this one.

Reviewer: Maria Aparecida Affonso
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: We keep reading. It's dificult to stop.

Reviewer: Ruben Morales
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: thriller psicológico fascinante que mantiene al lector en constante suspenso. Con una trama llena de giros inesperados y la aguda percepción de la protagonista, Jessie Hunt, la historia explora temas de identidad, manipulación y oscuros secretos. Ideal para los amantes de los thrillers psicológicos que buscan una lectura atrapante de principio a fin.

Reviewer: lilly deesein
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: wenn es nicht an einigen Stellen vorhersehbar gewesen wäre bzw. mir die Situationen bekannt vorkamen.Es ist immer noch spannend, ohne Frage! Jessie als Hauptfigur gut gezeichnet und auch die verschiedenen Seiten der anderen Charaktere. Aber manchmal hab ich mich schon gefragt, warum Jessie mit ihrer "Expertise" sag ich mal und ihrem Hintergrund so langsam schaltet. Ich werde Band 2 mal ausprobieren, die Serie hat auf jeden Fall Potential.

Reviewer: Tea and Cake for the Soul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The Perfect Wife by Blake Pierce is the first of 21 books about Jessie Hunt, a young married woman who is studying to be a criminal profiler.The couple move to Orange County from downtown LA and join the local yacht club to get to know the local community and make new contacts for the husband’s business. Meanwhile, Jessie is also involved in a far darker side of life where she visits a hardcore criminal institution to interview a serial killer as part of her degree. However, things are not all as they seem at the yacht club and Jessie finds out far more than she bargained for.This is a brilliant story with so many twists and turns, none of which I saw coming. It is interesting to see both the personal and career sides of Jessie’s life, and although this is a standalone read, it sets up the whole series. The Perfect Wife is currently free on Kindle, as are the first books for several other psychological thriller and murder mystery collections by author Blake Pierce. Highly recommended.