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Perfect Husband
Perfect Husband | Lisa Gardner
Tess was only eighteen when she married Jim Beckett, a decorated police officer. Having grown up in an abusive household, she thought she'd found her savior in Jim. But he quickly showed a dark, controlling side and an explosive rage that, unbeknownst to Tess, resulted in his committing multiple murders. When Tess finally put the pieces together, she helped the police capture Jim. But now two y ears later, he's escaped from prison, and Tess knows he's going after her.Tess isn't about to sit still and be turned into a victim once more. Leaving her daughter in the protective custody of the police, she travels to Arizona where she intends to hire the infamous mercenary J.T. Dillon to teach her how to protect herself. J.T. has had enough of life, having lost too many of his personal battles, and is content is drink himself into oblivion. But Tess refuses to go away, and J.T. realizes that she's his one chance to redeem himself.Meanwhile, the police are on a manhunt for Jim, who has started killing again. Finally, everyone realizes that the only way to capture the elusive Jim is to set Tess up as a bait, leading to a breath-stealing climax.
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Staci
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Mehso-so

It was so much going on in this book, but it wasn't bad at all.

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Born.A.Reader
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📚 Nora Roberts' Garden Trilogy
📚 📚 Family Album by D Steel
📚 📚 📚 The Perfect Husband by L Gardner (tagged)
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
@dabbe

dabbe All 3 are new to me and to my TBR! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 8mo
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Read4life
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Ok @Clwojick 🤓 You‘re #TrappedonanIsland but you‘ve got a shelf of good books to enjoy.
The tagged is one of my favorite books and the one that turned me on to Lisa Gardner.

Clwojick Thank you! These looks like great choices! 🧡🧡 2y
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Read4life
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#AdventRecommends @emilyrose_x

Another ‘introduced me to‘ book. This one introduced me to Lisa Gardner and she‘s been a must read author for me ever since.

Born.A.Reader This is the first Lisa Gardner book I read too! And it's my favorite! 2y
Read4life @Born.A.Reader Mine, too! 2y
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LiseWorks
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June 25 #BigJuneReadathonPhotoChallenge "wife/husband" @Clwojick I read this awhile ago

Clwojick Fantastic choice 🖤 2y
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Read4life
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Day 25 #BigJuneReadathon
* Wife/Husband

Absolutely loved this book. It‘s the one that put Lisa Gardner on my Must Read list.

Clwojick Glad to hear it! I have this audiobook on Chirp! 🖤 2y
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Minervasbutler
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Panpan

I read Alone a while back and enjoyed it a lot but this early effort is fairly poor, sadly. The psychotic killer cop was hardly a new trope even then and why a woman on the run would turn to another brutal macho thug for protection is never satisfactorily explained.

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swishandflick
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Bailedbailed

Ya'll know I love me some Lisa Gardner, but for some reason I just cannot stay engaged with this one! The premise sounds great, a woman who helped convict her serial killer husband is now on the run and looking for training on how to protect herself after he escapes (presumably to get his revenge). The pacing just feels all over the place. And one of the main characters, JT, definitely gets on my nerves. Gonna throw in the towel for now 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Sflynn4051
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He's too precious to move. He can have my book for now.

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BlueStockingReviews
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THE PERFECT HUSBAND was a suspenseful novel of unrelenting tension.
Lisa Gardner‘s writing draws you in with a deranged serial killer on the loose who has promised to cut out his wife‘s still beating heart. Tess, of course is scared and you watch delightedly as she evolves from weak and needy into a strong, determined... https://www.bluestockingreviews.com/blog/the-perfect-husband-fbi-profiler-series...

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BlueStockingReviews
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Pickpick

THE PERFECT HUSBAND was a suspenseful novel of unrelenting tension.
Lisa Gardner‘s writing draws you in with a deranged serial killer on the loose who has promised to cut out his wife‘s still beating heart. Tess, of course is scared and you watch delightedly as she evolves from weak and needy into a strong, determined... https://www.bluestockingreviews.com/blog/the-perfect-husband-fbi-profiler-series...

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TrishB
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#perfectlife #getmovin
Tess thinks she has one in this- but nooooo!!
A great thriller and a great series, I love these.

Cinfhen Yet, another series ❣️❣️😂 6y
TrishB @Cinfhen you can see I‘ve not done much with my life....😁 6y
Cinfhen Quite the opposite!!! 6y
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tracey38 I love Lisa Gardener's books ! 6y
TrishB @tracey38 they‘re fab 👍🏻 6y
eanderson Again!!! You are getting me into a pickle with all these amazing book posts!!! 6y
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Mitch
Perfect Husband | Lisa Gardner
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When your husband surprises you with a new notebook!
Now - what shall I use it for? Ideas......

#lovemyman #stationerylover

Tamra 😻 7y
AmyG I love it! 7y
erzascarletbookgasm Super cute! 💜 7y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 😍😻😍😻 7y
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Mitch
Perfect Husband | Lisa Gardner
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I had to take a break from #24in48 to at least get some of my books off the floor and on their new shelves! Not sorted ( which is bugging the perfectionist in me!) but gotta get that stopwatch off pause !! I also need to cook my ❤️husband some dinner as shelf payment! #bookishlife

Andrew65 Looking good! 7y
Christine11 I love your bookshelf! 😊 7y
britt_brooke Love those contemporary clean lines. Pretty! 7y
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Mitch Thanks guys - I‘m a sucker for order! 7y
Tamra 👌🏾 7y
ReadingRuby They look beautiful! 7y
Lreads It looks amazing! I love how all the focus is on the books. Your husband did a great job! 👏🏻 7y
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throwmeabook
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Just dropped my daughter off early for volleyball practice and with the house so quiet thought I‘d get in some undisturbed reading time. I have the third book in the series and plan to read it for #mounttbr but before I can do that I had to get book 1 and 2 from the library to catch up. I just can‘t read a series out of order. #climbingmountvancouver

TrishB Nope me neither. 7y
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MeganAnn
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My talented husband has been diligently working on building a new bookshelf for our living room. I cannot wait to start filling this with books! He still has some work to do, including staining, but it looks amazing so far and much larger in person than the picture conveys. 🎉😍📚

So does anyone have advice on styling bookshelves?

Mommamanzi Be still my beating heart!!!!!! 7y
398.2 I always wanted to style them by color but that would drive me nuts trying to do that lol 7y
DivineDiana What a masterpiece! 👏🏻📚 7y
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Jess7 Nice!!! 7y
Texreader Oh my it's plenty big and wonderful! What fun you will have loading it with books! 7y
MaryAnn1 Wowza!! You are a lucky duck!!😍 7y
[DELETED] 3803335244 How awesome! 7y
MeganAnn @Mommamanzi right?!?! I feel the same way every time I go in our garage! 7y
MeganAnn @398.2 I've thought about that but I think not keeping the series/authors together would drive me nuts. But it looks so pretty! 7y
MeganAnn @DivineDiana @Jess7 @MaryAnn1 @ForeverNerdy thank you!!! My husband is so very talented! 7y
emilyhaldi So cool! 7y
MeganAnn @Texreader I cannot wait! 😍 7y
Jess7 He definitely is! 7y
TheWordJar That is gorgeous!! I think if he wanted to make that a full-time job, he'd get plenty of work through Litsy! 😂 7y
Heideschrampf Does he have a brother?? 7y
AmyG Hahaha @Heideschrampf Gorgeous! As for styling....you will have to play with it...see what works. We will want to see them all up and filled, though! 7y
MeganAnn @Heideschrampf 😂😂 He has two actually, but alas they are both married and not nearly as handy at woodworking as he is. 7y
MeganAnn @TheWordJar 😂 I can only imagine! 7y
MeganAnn @AmyG thanks! I'll definitely be posting finished pictures when I get it all set up 😊 7y
MrBook 😱😱😱 Amaaaazing!!! He's got skills! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
litmuggle Those are going to look amazing. 7y
ZoeyPeacock I had to come find the in progress pic! Love it! 7y
MeganAnn @ZoeyPeacock thank you! It's finished and installed in the house so now I just have to organize my books and fill it! 7y
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brutalbookworm
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IT'S ALL WRAPPED, PACKED, AND ABOUT TO BE ON ITS WAY!!!! I can't wait until this package gets to my match!

@BookishMarginalia #summersantagoespostal
#summersolsticebookexchange

tpixie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
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Read4life
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#GONEBABYGONE I love Lisa Gardner books and more recently Behind her eyes.

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JoeStalksBeck
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Cheers Littens! Happy Sunday night reading!

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Read4life
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#aprilamazingreads Starting late so catching up. Day 1 #surprising The Perfect Husband started my love affair with Lisa Gardner and that husband was far from perfect! Behind Her Eyes twisted once more than I thought it would.

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Born.A.Reader
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#marchintoreading with #happyreads. These are my go-to books when I'm in a slump or need a quick pick me up. (Yes, even Twilight -don't judge, I'm a sucker for happily-ever-after lol) 😀😀📚❤ Most of these have rereads in the double digits.

BeckyD I have a few I've read at least a dozen times. I'm glad Goodreads has the reread feature now. I can read the same book more than once in a year without it hurting my challenge. 8y
mrsamandahood @Born.A.Reader The Twilight series will always be so special to me because they helped me get through a really tough time! 💜 8y
TrishB The Perfect Husband is a great, twisty thriller! 8y
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Born.A.Reader @TrishB I love it! It's been a favorite of mine since high school! 8y
Born.A.Reader @mrsamandahood I know there's a lot of guff about glittering vampires and such, but I read it as a really strong love story (with a happy ending, of course) and I kind of relate to Bella in a few ways, so the whole series is special to me. I usually reread BD the most, simply bc I love the wedding, Renesmee, and the more grown up aspect of that book. 😊 8y
mrsamandahood @Born.A.Reader I'm right there with you, BD has always been my favorite too! I love when they get married! I love when they have Renesmee too but the whole pregnancy and the birth especially kind of freaks me out a little. 8y
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BeckyRoy
Perfect Husband | Lisa Gardner
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My husband made me these bookshelves for my Christmas gift and installed them yesterday while I was at work. The wood is from my friend's sawmill. I love them!!!

rachellayown How cool! 💚💙💛 8y
JodyS Those are awesome! 8y
Libby1 Wowee zowee. 8y
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rubyslippersreads 😍😍😍 8y
saresmoore Those are incredible! 8y
LauraBeth Wow - beautiful!! 8y
PenguinInFlight Wow! Those are amazing. 😍 8y
BeckyRoy @rubyslippersreads @Libby1 @JodyS @rachellayown @Eamann @saresmoore @LauraBeth @PenguinInFlight Thanks for the great response! I'm just thrilled. I keep staring at them😍 8y
christineandbooks That's such a special gift! 8y
mrsh62010 Gorgeous! 8y
Eyelit That's awesome! So beautiful! 8y
badnorthern Perfect husband indeed! 8y
Lucylovesreading This is why I refuse to buy your out of the box bookshelf! I want something with character that's REAL wood! 8y
Joysiam Wow 8y
Texreader Those are amazing and one of a kind! 8y
BeckyRoy @Texreader Thanks! 8y
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JeaMar82
Pickpick

A great start to another great series by Lisa Gardner.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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JeaMar82

Hoping to finish this today or tomorrow. 40% to go. 😬
#readcrimefiction

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JeaMar82
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Have to take this little girl to the vet after work today. 😞 She has a bit of a problem.

In the meantime, I'll read The Perfect Husband on my lunch break. 😊
#lisagardner #readcrimefiction

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JeaMar82

13% in and not sure what to think just yet...

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JeaMar82
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Probably shouldn't start another series yet but a series by Lisa Gardner is something I cant pass up. 😊
#libraryebook #kindlebook #lisagardner #bookwormproblems

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