A Perfect Husband by Aphrodite Jones
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Book Reviews of A Perfect Husband
Book Review: Shocking!
Summary: 5 Stars
I cannot believe this story could be true: A fiction writer plots the death of his wife. This book is Aphrodite Jones at her best.Book Review: Why Kathleen Peterson stayed!
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought the book was excellent! I bought it yesterday and have already finished it. My sister wants it now.
It was easy for me to understand Kathleen Peterson. I have seen this happen to alot of women, women who believe that they cannot exist without a man. Smart women who can make it on their own but have such low self esteem that they have to stay attached to a man, ANY man! Kathleen was very vulnerable after her husband who she had loved did the typical 20 year ditch!
Many of these women blame themselves when their selfish husbands walk out.
Men can smell a desperate, lonely woman a mile away. And Michael Peterson thought she was perfect for the life he wanted to create for himself. And Kathleen just went into the denial mode. Already scarred from her previous divorce, she wasn't thinking clearly. And I absolutely believe what the prosecuting attorney said. That she found this gay porn on the computer and they had a horrific fight and she told him to hit the bricks. I believe Michael Peterson had an intense hatred and rage toward women. And I also believe that he put Elizabeth Ratliff in that coffin she has been in for almost 20 years. I have no doubt that he killed both of these women!
Book Review: You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Summary: 4 Stars
I suggest that the dictionary should have a new phrase entitled "You Can't Make This Stuff Up". And I further suggest that Aphrodite' Jones' book A Perfect Husband be used to describe that phrase.
I could not get over the circumstances that surrounded the people in this story - before, during, and after that fateful weekend of December 8-9, 2001. Ms. Jones chronicles some pretty heavy stuff regarding very intense subjects like divorce, domestic violence, sexuality, and murder. She also covers a spectrum of emotions ranging from love to hate, from courage to fear, from honesty to deceit, all in a story that winds and unfolds across both time and geography.
I had to remind myself sometimes that I was reading about actual places and events, and not a fictional story created in the mind of an author sitting at a keyboard. So I couldn't help but turn the pages to see how the people described in the story behaved and reacted to the events that transpired.
You'll read this book and see for yourself that you can't make this stuff up.
Book Review: Very interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
I have very little patience when it comes to reading. I give a book about 10 pages before I decide if I will continue to read it or not. I was hooked from page one. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I found it very interesting and easy to read. I have a very short attention span when it comes to reading and I found this book to be quite engaging.Book Review: Will We Ever Know The Truth?
Summary: 3 Stars
The Peterson murder trial was one of the few trials I was totally not interested in. I read not one word about it. Did not watch COURT TV when it was on. I found Michael Peterson, for some reason, not worth the effort. There was something about him I found extremely off-putting. I still can't put my finger on why I feel this way.
A couple of weeks ago I happened to stumble across a French documentary about the Michael Peterson murder trial on Sundance Channel entitled, 'The Staircase.' Although not initially interested, I thought I'd watch a couple of minutes of it. It was like being sucked into a vortex! 'The Staircase', which concludes next Monday on Sundance Channel, is one of the very best documentaries I have ever seen. And I have seen them all. I immediately bought 'A PERFECT HUSBAND' which arrived today.
I am confused by some of the comments made by other readers on this site with regard to Ms. Jones book. Did we read the same book? She more than filled in all the sink holes that appear in the investigation of the death and trial. I would use the term 'pot holes' to describe what has been left out of this case, but sink holes would be more accurate.
I read half the book at the office (it was a slow day) and finished it just now at home. Laboring under the false impression that one of the main characters in the story died in combat in Grenada, I learn from Ms. Jones that he died mysteriously in his sleep of cyanide poisoning! This is the husband of the woman who mysteriously fell down her stairs in Germany and died as a result. Next door neighbors to Michael Peterson and his ex-wife at the time. Then, years later, Peterson's new wife falls down the stairs of their home and dies accidently. Uh, excuse me?
Either Michael Peterson has the worst luck of any human in the USA, or he is a serial killer. What are the odds of one man and two women dying mysteriously and all being connected in one way or another to Michael Peterson?
If you can see 'The Staircase' or get a copy of it, please go out of your way to do so. Then read A PERFECT HUSBAND by Ms. Jones. The entire mess just boggles the mind. If he did, indeed, murder his wife and his friend in Germany, I hope before he dies he confesses to it. If he is innocent, he has my complete sympathy. I always thought I was the sad sack with questionable luck, but he beats me by miles. You can't make this stuff up.
I think she has done a wonderful job with the book. And most of the information wasn't even mentioned in the trial to my knowledge. COURT TV buffs, and true crime nuts, see 'The Staircase' on Monday night at 9 (Sundance Channel) and after it's over, go on line and order this book from amazon.com. You will wonder, as I do, what the truth really is. The only person who knows what really happened that night is Michael Peterson. And he ain't talkin'.