This is an interesting Christian fiction book. There's a bit of a mystery, however it's pretty easy to figure out. It's more about the characters' growth and learning about their faith.

I love the show "Criminal Minds" and this book reminded me of an episode of the show. A psychopath is on the loose and in his sick, twisted mind, he thinks that he can fix a disabled female artist by kidnapping and killing innocent children and women. He then poses and paints the bodies and leaves them until the public understands his message. This was a new author to me. I had never even heard of her, but the description of the book drew me in. I felt that her writing was well-structured and exciting. It left me eager to read more. The only thing that bothered me as I read was that when I reached the middle of the book, I had already figured out who the psychopath was. I like reading books where I don't know how the conflict will be resolved. It makes the book more exciting when I am left to guess. The suspense built and there were definitely many scenes with gory details.
I highly recommend this book to those enjoy suspense.

Robin Ingram is a disabled artist living in the community of Avalon on Catalina Island where everyone is on high alert after a baby sitter had gone missing with her young charge. It had been assumed the sitter had kidnapped the child until her body is found murdered but also painted and posed with a huge resemblance to Robin.

With a madman on the loose that seems to be focused on fixing Robin of her disability through the posing of the murders he’s committing Robin turns to her friend Sam Albrecht to help find the killer. But before Robin knows it the police take Sam into custody and while Robin doesn’t know who the real killer is she does know it’s not her friend Sam.

Fixing Perfect by Therese M. Travis was a nice enough murder mystery story about a serial killer who is kidnapping adults and children while fixated on the female main character in the story. The story switches the point of view between Robin, the killer and the hostages at various points during the read keeping their versions to what they know is going on and hiding the identity of the killer.

My lower rating with this one at three stars is simply because to me the killer seemed fairly obvious as I was reading along. It just didn’t seem to have the plot twists and turns and hiding the identity to make this a completely intense page turner that I couldn’t put down. Still a nice little read with some lovely secondary characters and setting but I would have preferred a bit more mystery and suspense.

I received a copy from the publisher via NetGalley.