Really enjoyed this book, had me gripped from the beginning chapters and full of twists and turns the entire way through.

I love a book that grabs me right from the start ! All in for a wife frantically searching for her husband ! Where could he have gone ? What follows is a crime mystery that has the reader questioning everything and everyone ! One it is discovered that the missing husband bares incredible physical characteristics to another man ( murder victim) you can’t help but wonder if in fact that was the missing husband!
Not one to give up - the Mrs is convinced he is alive somewhere and as she pursues and desperately seeks leads - we along with her - discover that not is as it seems !
Great read that will have you guessing right up to the end ! Loved it !!!

I was hoping to get into this novel but I found the beginning too slow to continue reading. Unfortunately, it was a pass.

The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler was a great book with so many twists and turns throughout I was hooked from the first few pages. The main character Gemma is helping police as her husband Danny has disappeared just weeks after they have moved into a new house. However she learns a serial killer is on the loose and the victim’s all look like her husband, is she to blame? A fab book.

I was hooked on this book from start to finish. The plot, the words, how well written it is. If you haven't started this book, you need to.

When Gemma returns home from a business trip, her husband isn’t there as expected. When he fails to turn up, she reports him missing. Recently married and moved to Bristol, she has few friends she can call on for help.
The Perfect Couple is a strange one, well-written with a good plot, loads of twists, but many with some unlikely turns. A good entertaining real but not especially memorable.
With thanks to Netgalley and Harper Impulse Killer reads

Gemma and Danny are what seem to be the perfect couple. They’ve been together a year and a half and recently moved to Bristol for a new start. One evening she returns home to find no sign of Danny. Once she turns to the police she is horrified to find out that there is a serial killer on the loose and his recent victims looks exactly like Danny.

It was full of twists and turns and I had no idea what was coming next which I found easy to read.

Overall I found it to be an enjoyed and quick read but it was a bit too much and over the top for me.

I want to thank Harper Impluse, Killer Reads and Netgalley for generously providing me with this book in exchange for an honest review.

Creepy serial killer story. Really liked the characters and the slight twist to the story. Men being murdered rather than women for starters! This will keep you guessing and it kept me up all last night too! Read in one sitting. Says it all. 5/5!

I really liked this author and this book did not disappoint, it was an appropriately paced, page-turner that will have me hooked throughout the story.

A pretty decent read. Good storyline and there were quite a few twists that kind of left you guessing what would be happening. It was all resolved rather quickly and the ending left me wanting a little more, but definitely worth reading.

I have read mixed reviews about this one but I must say I loved it!
The story centres around Gemma whose husband goes missing but there is no evidence that he ever moved from London to Bristol with her. She is determined to prove she's telling the truth yet the more evidence that piles up the more doubt the police have in her story. Alongside this the police have two dead men who strangely look extremely similar the police worry they have a serial killer on their hands espically as Danny (Gemma's missing husband) fits the profile of the other dead men.

Gemma is an interesting character. I loved her determination and I loved in her chapters that she was almost talking to the reader. She's a very determined pragmatist yet there seem to have been read flags she had missed that to most might appear obvious. Yet this didn't make me dislike her I felt for her. I love that she uses her investigative journalism to do her own investigation as the police are focusing on her as a possible suspect and serial killer. She's determined as hell to prove her innocence problem is there is so much that makes it hard to believe her.

The police officers investigating the case aren't that likable esp the lead detective. She is very heavy handed and short sighted, she doesn't seem to want to do any real detective work. The other detective is a bit more likeable yet he is suffering from his own personal stuff, but he is a bit more likeable. Their chapters are in third person which makes it a bit better as we are able to detach from them slightly.

I found the prose very clever the twist and turns we are as readers investigating alongside the main characters. The main question we are pressed with is, is Danny alive or dead? Now I guessed correctly quite early on, I had also worked out the serial killer and the two twist at the end. But I didn’t enjoy it any less. I actually was racing through to find out if I was correct.


Honestly great psychological thriller I highly recommend plus it's quite an easy read. I happily give 5 stars.


Thank you Netgslley, Jackie Kabler and the publishers for the pre released text in exchange for my fair and honest review apologise for late review.

Is there such a thing as a perfect couple?

Apparently not quite! A thrilling read, full of head-scratching, eyebrow furrowing moments wondering who did what and when?

An interesting take on a thriller. I would definitely recommend.

I liked this a lot. I liked how we saw from Gemma's and the police's views. The twists kept coming and it was an exciting book.

I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The ending of this book just hits you out of nowhere. It was wonderfully written and the characters were very well flushed out!

Thank you kindly to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for this review copy.

The title of this book suggests that you think you know whats going to happen, well actually you dont. I connected with the characters but the ending was very disappointing for me. It was over the top and out there.

The Perfect Couple – always beware any book title that has perfect in it. Nine times out of ten it is anything but perfect. Gemma and Danny have the perfect life, the perfect jobs, and the perfect friends. Nothing and no-one are perfect, and Danny and Gemma are no exception. Gemma is a freelance journalist and Danny works in IT. Life is sweet, that is until Gemma goes on a business trip and comes home to no chilled prosecco, no dinner cooking, and no Danny. Initially Gemma thinks he’s been held late at work but the hours tick by and still there’s no Danny. She is finally forced to report him missing.

The synopsis initially got me overly excited at the prospect of reading The Perfect Couple. A twisty domestic thriller usually gets my pulse rocketing but no such luck with this tale. It’s not all negative and there were genuinely parts that had me intrigued enough to keep reading, and my favourite red herring trope had me questioning everything but by the midpoint of the book was becoming increasingly frustrated at the pacing and the direction that the author was taking the story in.

Although the premise of The Perfect Couple had serious potential to keep me hooked it just wasn’t a good fit for me. The pacing from the very beginning was slow (considering how it started, it didn’t sit well with me.) As it progressed, I really had considered DNF’ing it, but I wanted to see if I was right in my assumptions. By the mid-point it felt like we weren’t any further forward in working out what exactly had happened to Danny – although I’m sure every reader at this point knew what happened to him.

The Perfect Couple’s main character, Gemma just grated on my very last nerve. As a character she was mind numbingly dull and seemed to lack any substance whatsoever. She didn’t stand out (maybe that was the author’s intention) and for someone that had been a crime investigative journalist she was incredibly naïve bordering on stupid when dealing with different lines of investigation. The investigating detectives also seemed blind. It made me wonder what kind of cases they were used to dealing with in Bristol because there were facts that were staring at them in the face and they still couldn’t see it. Didn’t see the wood for the trees!

As a well-seasoned suspense reader, it just didn’t work well for me, there were more holes in the plot than a colander.

I didn't enjoy this book at all. I found all the plot twists way too obvious. I didn't care for any of the characters, apart from Albert the Miniature Schnauzer

I'm sorry this was a DNF for me -it was a bit drawn out and couldn't hold my attention- thank you for the opportunity to read and review it however.

I'm glad I've never met people in real life who are like the characters in this book--utterly broken people and psychopaths. I understand how people can turn out this way, but it's still very shocking to read. I figured it all out just before the final reveal, but barely. Then the last few pages make you wonder if the story is really over....

Thank you NetGalley and One More Chapter for this book.
What can I say, I loved it and as someone else has said it was a “head spinning book”.
It totally enthralled me and I couldn’t get enough of this. I was so disappointed when I finished it.
The book was interesting and kept me gripped with a great twist.
This was the first book I have read by this author and will certainly looking for more. Please keep writing I need another book to be totally engrossed in