I just finished the book called, Perfect Crime by Jack Erickson. He was born in Williston, North Dakota, The United States, and April 14. Love of fiction books when he was a kid reading the Hardy Boys books. He mostly writes short mystery story’s that aren’t really known. The story starts off with the wife; Mrs. Hardin on the way to kill her husband who she discovers is really cheating on her. She tells the details of what she went through to find out how her husband planed out how he was going to cheat on her. She then goes into extreme detail about how she planned on how she would kill her husband in a way that she wouldn’t be blamed. She kills her husband and the girl he was with and gets away with it clean. Until five years later she is living happy off her husband’s insurance money when an agent shows up at her door and tells her how she had proof that she killed her husband because she made minor mistake. The wife is then shocked that the agent is the twin sister of the girl her husband was cheating with and the wife goes to jail. In writing the book; Erickson made the realization that nothing can be perfect. The wife took so long in trying to be perfect because she thought no one could be as smart as her. In the end someone smarter came along and pointed out her mistakes, and got her caught. The story also points out the fact that everything has a consequence. The wife wanted to be happy but it came with a price. While I had trouble with how short the book was I didn’t have a problem understanding the points of the story. The author used exquisite context to piece the story together, but it was just too short. If the author added more stories or more detail it would’ve been better but he ended it too quickly. It was a wonderful story but could’ve been better; if there was detail about the after math of the wife being caught I would’ve loved this book. I don’t recommend this book it was a complete waste of my time. Although the author is great at telling a story he is not good at giving enough detail to make the story great. If you do read this book don’t hope for a long and exciting story line. Look for a straight to the point story with minimum detail. You could have named it anything, I mean anything but "perfect Crime", why?? I am an avid reader of crime fiction. Naturally, the name caught my attention. As I turned the first few pages, I was welcomed by a compelling narration of a woman - a wife who is being cheated by her husband - wow, what a perfect plot. It felt great but as I kept on turning the pages, my experience went only southwards. The crime was a pretty ordinary crime, far-far from perfect in any sense, even a 11 year old would have found the culprit. By the end of the book, I was terribly let down. I would not have been that much disappointed if it had any other name other than "perfect crime". Any case, being a narrative, it was a decent read.
What do You think about Perfect Crime (2000)?
The moral don't try to kill your philandering husband, it will always be found out..
—psgo3
Couldn't get into it, descriptions of birds went on a bit and I lost interest...
—whitney
Short story but I liked it and it was free.
—NaomiJohnHankGreen
