A wife killer contacts the husbands and tells them that he killed their family and if they do as he says he'll give them a shot at himself - if they still want to after he has spent time with them. Agent Ķelly Roth returns to where she grew up to hunt for him, will her own painful memories help or hinder her?

An enjoyable book.

Hmmm, I’m in two minds about this book. I half enjoyed it, and half found it boring.
I couldn’t get to grips with the protagonist, Kelly Roth, she was very morose, sombre and unapproachable. I know she had a painful past, but that wasn’t what this book was about. I just felt like I couldn’t take to her at all.
There were parts of the book that dragged and went into too much detail. Such as the lecture given on guns, I found myself skim reading this section as, although, relevant to the story I don’t feel like that much detail needed to be given.
Something that really grates on my nerves, and I’ve mentioned this for other books are acronyms without an explanation. The first time one is used it should always have the full version alongside it. It shouldn’t be assumed that the reader knows what they are especially as the majority in this book were police related. I’m from the UK, and this is set in America, so I definitely didn’t know half of the terminology used (FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) or course I did) which left me stumbling over the acronyms with no clue what the characters were talking about.
The thing that kept me most interested in this book, however, were the small snippets we were given into the killer's mind. These were the most fascinating sections, and I kept moving forward wanting to know who he/she was and why were they doing these awful things.
I guessed who their next target was going to be, but the end of the book fell very flat. The unveiling of the killer felt effortless, and I was left thinking “oh is that it?” I was expecting a more significant twist, and I felt cheated for having invested in the book for this ending.
I'm still giving this three stars, but this is only because of the suspense that the book built up. I think without the snippets from the killer this would have been just a two-star read.

As soon as I read the blurb for this book I knew that i would not be disappointed. I am very glad to say WOW this is one hell of a read.
He kills their wives, destroys their families then he comes after the husband's. He asks them, taunting them " Do You Want To Know Who Killed Your Wife ? " From the first page I was hooked, atmospheric and chilling in equal parts. Enter Kelly Roth an FBI profiler who has her own trauma and her team to catch this killer as he escalates and the body count begins to rise. The clock is ticking. This killer is so clever at leading the authorities in the wrong direction, plots within plots had me reading late into the night and tapping my kindle faster and faster. I just had to know and as for the ending WHAM definitely not what I was expecting and it blew me away. Another explosive read from this author and so highly recommended.
I would like to thank the author, Joffre Books and Netgalley for the advanced copy in return for giving an honest review.

A good story, well written, with an unusual plot. Who are the intended victims? The people who are killed or their spouses, or both. Can you figure out who did it? I could not.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for an advance copy of The Husbands, a stand alone thriller set in upstate New York.

Special Agent Kelly Roth is sent to her home area of New York State to investigate the separate murders of three women, all killed months apart by a single head shot in remote areas. The press made the link before the separate police jurisdictions and nicknamed him The Park Killer but what they don’t know is that he is contacting the widowers afterwards.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Husbands which is an entertaining read told at a fast pace. This is Kelly’s first field assignment so she hits the ground running and, determined to make a success of it, works at a frenetic pace. The reader gets a real sense of her urgency from the writing as the novel is told mostly from her point of view. I found myself caught up and hooked from the start. The novel has a good premise, not only does the reader have to work out who and why but they also have to try and work out what he wants from those left behind. I must admit that I found the killer’s reasoning a bit murky and difficult to follow when he was finally unmasked but Kelly’s take on it is succinct and reasonable. The journey to the denouement, however, is absorbing with plenty of twists and turns, most of which I didn’t see coming.

Kelly Roth is a good character. She is solitary by nature and obviously still affected by a traumatic event in her past which caused her to flee the area many years previously. This is her first trip back and you can almost hear her swallowing and taking a deep breath before plunging in to the case. She isn’t as sure of herself as she’d like to believe so she covers this by working harder.

The Husbands is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.

This is a real page turner, about a killer who murders woman and then provokes the husbands and it starts the story with a recently bereaved husband of a murdered woman receiving a text from a person who says he killed her, "how do you feel?" asks the text? What follows is an intricate tale of Kelly Roth, an FBI behavioural analysis agent, who visits the town where a number of women have been murdered and whilst fighting her own demons works this difficult case.

The characters are complex and interesting and it maintained my interest throughout.

Thanks to NetGalley, Joffe Books and TJ Brearton for the opportunity to preview this excellent read in exchange for my honest review.