To Love, Honor, and Kill

by Lee Butcher

The Perfect Couple. . . On a hot summer night, near St. Augustine, Florida, a beautiful couple--who had everything going for them--went for a walk on the beach. By midnight, April Barber was dead, her husband Justin was riddled with bullets, and police had a baffling mystery on their hands. . . The Perfect Motive. . . Investigators soon suspected that Justin himself was the killer and that the attack was a carefully planned sham. The motive: Justin...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786019085
• ISBN13: 9780786019083
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Used to Love Her!

I had watched the 48 Hours episode on this case. I was surprised by how case of homicide received such attention. Both husband Justin Barber and his wife, April Lott Barber, were quite an attractive couple but looks can be deceiving. This book paints Justin as an abusive, two-dimensional character. We don't know much about Justin's upbringing or what created him to be a monster behind closed doors. To everybody else, he made appearances as a good husband and surrogate father to April's younger brother and sister who lived with her and her new husband. It was a disaster. April had instincts to call off the wedding in the Bahamas two weeks before but she never did. Had she have followed her instincts? She probably would still be alive and living in Hennessy, Oklahoma. They were a young couple, beautiful and promising but underneath it was nothing but fights and constant abuse mostly from Justin's behavior. He had affairs, took out a 2 million dollar life insurance policy, refused to give his suffering wife a divorce because he hated failing at his second marriage. Justin blames everybody else for his problems including their financial woes. They should have been happy with their income but they were in debt mostly because of Justin's crazy spending on cars and himself. When I watched him on television, I felt sorry for him but I don't anymore because he really cares only about himself. You can't believe the story about murder on the beach because it's just impossible to hear his story. I had to skim through most of the book after his arrest which was pretty vague because I felt that it was just repetition of information already provided. Butcher has written an excellent account of this case with specific details but it gets tedious and redundant at times.