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    Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: a Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
    Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: a Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
    Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: a Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
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    Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: a Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder

    Written by Shanna Hogan

    Narrated by Emily Durante

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    About this audiobook

    Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done something so sinister?

    But soon a suspect was singled out-Jodi Arias. A beautiful, aspiring photographer, Jodi had been in a long-distance relationship with Travis the year before. But Travis wasn't interested in a serious commitment; he was seeing several women during that time. When he broke up with her, that didn't stop Jodi from leaving California, moving to just a few miles away from Travis's home, and inserting herself into his daily life. Investigators found one piece of startling evidence in Travis's home that implicated Jodi. But in a bizarre turn of events, Jodi would claim self-defense. Was she a victim-or a devious femme fatale?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 9, 2013
    ISBN9781452686622
    Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: a Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
    Author

    Shanna Hogan

    SHANNA HOGAN was an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of several true-crime books including Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story. She wrote for numerous publications and received more than twenty awards for her feature writing and investigative reporting. Shanna was named Journalist of the Year by the Arizona Press Club in 2010 and again in 2011 by the Arizona Newspaper Association. She appeared on The View, Dateline, 20/20, CNN, HLN, Fox News, Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen, and Investigation Discovery. In addition, she taught journalism at her alma mater, Arizona State University. Shanna lived in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband, Matt LaRussa, their son, and their two dogs.

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    • 4/5
      I liked that this book detailed the early lives of Travis and Jodi.
      It did not veer off topic and held my interest.
    • 2/5
      Yeah, I watched the trial. Yeah, I think that she was proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. No, I don't feel sorry for her. But, I did think that it would be interesting to learn more details concerning the principles involved. No, this book did not satisfy that desire.

      The book provided very few, if any, facts that weren't elaborated upon during the trial. It was not written in an unbiased manner, but rather skewed toward the victim (understandable to a certain degree). This resulted in a book that was more of a testimonial to Alexander Travis than exposé, and frankly, rather boring.
    • 4/5
      Followed this case since the beginning. Liked the fact that Ms. Hogan dedicated so many chapters about Travis Alexander before introducing Jodi into the book. I learned more about Travis in this book than any other material I've read. This case is such a tragedy.
    • 3/5
      This book really wasn't that bad, but because of the nature of the topic, I think it had to be written, edited, and published very quickly, and this shows. There is mention of the "corroded" artery in Travis Alexander's neck, which had me giggling until I banged my head on the coffee table (yes, I'm going to hell). That little tidbit is available on page 203, paragraph four or so. There were a couple other glaring errors: for instance, the written description of Alexander's tombstone says his picture is on the bottom left, while a picture shows the opposite. There's also a quote on page 141 attributed to one Marianne Williamson. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful..." I have previously seen this credited to Nelson Mandela.

      What, did you think I was going to look it up?

      Hogan's book is worth the read though. She tries to show both sides of the story, saving her personal opinion for the end. I appreciated this tactic much more than Jane Velez-Mitchell's.