Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing this book, with my honest review below.

Well that was unexpected. Such a Perfect Family opens with a literal explosion when Tavish, newly married to Diya and moved to New Zealand from a dark past in LA, returns to his new wife’s family home to see it on fire, his wife stabbed, and his in laws presumed still inside when the home explodes. With the only survivors as wife Diya and sister in law Shumi, both in comas due to attacks vs the fire, Tavish is on the hunt to figure out what happened and what his wife’s last sentence before she went under means.

The book is highly fraught as detectives look closely at Tavish due to his history as a bit of a kept man, with his lovers dying while in relationships with him. But the southeastern Asian family he married into had their own set of secrets as well, and the mystery to figure out who did the crime, and if Tavish was up to no good in his past relationships, is hard to tear yourself away from. All in all this is a more action filled mystery than I expected with a lot of ideas laid out but somewhat unnnecessary or unexplored, but with plenty of bright red herrings and surprising turns it stands out in the genre.

This was a good, twisty thriller! I thought the storyline was engaging and paced well, and the twists were unexpected without feeling completely out of left field. My one critique is that, while I really liked Tavish, I wish we got to see a bit more of the fun voice he showed in his dialogue in the prose, which was pretty staid. Still, I thought it was a great read!