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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
Yes Luc has been transferred to France Interpol but a new case will have Ava calling him as people trafficking takes a turn into a murder case.
You can read this as a stand alone or as the 6th book in the series.
It was a faster pace as all the pieces quickly fell into place as we followed a young woman already in Scotland trafficked the other way had her experiences. Shocking and terrifying in equal measure I had to wonder how Helen Field's keeps coming out with such compelling crimes. One of the best so far.
You can read this as a stand alone or as the 6th book in the series.
It was a faster pace as all the pieces quickly fell into place as we followed a young woman already in Scotland trafficked the other way had her experiences. Shocking and terrifying in equal measure I had to wonder how Helen Field's keeps coming out with such compelling crimes. One of the best so far.
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As always, there are many sub-plots running throughout the book, making for an action packed story with many plot twists that kept me at the edge of my seat, unable to put down this book until I had finished reading the entire thing. I always promise myself that I’m going to start reading these books early in the day, so I’ll have time to finish reading well before bedtime. Somehow, I NEVER learn my lesson. I always start reading in the late afternoon or early evening, and wind up reading until the wee hours of the morning. Why don’t I just put the book down and start reading again in the morning? I’d like to challenge you to try that. These books are absolutely engrossing and I just can’t put them down until I know what happens. Plus, by that point in the story, I’m usually scared out of my mind and wouldn’t be able to sleep if I tried!
This book is another wonderful addition to the series, and I'm already looking forward to the next one. I can't wait to see what happens next!
https://www.leahsbooksandcooks.com/post/perfect-kill
As always, there are many sub-plots running throughout the book, making for an action packed story with many plot twists that kept me at the edge of my seat, unable to put down this book until I had finished reading the entire thing. I always promise myself that I’m going to start reading these books early in the day, so I’ll have time to finish reading well before bedtime. Somehow, I NEVER learn my lesson. I always start reading in the late afternoon or early evening, and wind up reading until the wee hours of the morning. Why don’t I just put the book down and start reading again in the morning? I’d like to challenge you to try that. These books are absolutely engrossing and I just can’t put them down until I know what happens. Plus, by that point in the story, I’m usually scared out of my mind and wouldn’t be able to sleep if I tried!
This book is another wonderful addition to the series, and I'm already looking forward to the next one. I can't wait to see what happens next!
DI Luc Callanach is in Paris investigating an illegal organ harvesting ring and trying to mend bridges with his former Interpol college. At the same time, DCI Ava Turner is in Scotland, trying to cope with, a missing persons investigation, serval murders that appear to be linked to people trafficking, relationship issues and some devastating news from her best friend. Both cases seem separate until a photograph of DCI Turners missing person turns up on French soil. Perfect Kill is book 6 of the DI Callanach series but each can be read as a standalone book the cases are new in each novel, it is purely character development that ties the books together. Having said that once you have read one you will want to read them all as they are enthralling reads.
This was another great page turner from Fields, I devoured it in a matter of hours and am already hungry for the next instalment. It opened my eyes to many things including the side of France that doesn’t pop into your head when you imagine Paris.
I especially loved following the development of DI Lively’s character in this book as in the first few novels he was a really odious man but in this book, you see another side to him, one that you makes you understand that there is two sides to every story. His dry humour, quick comments and raw emotion for the victims is a very welcome relief as the majority of book is very intense.
The whole series and especially this book are not for the faint hearted, the descriptions are gruesome and the way some of the victims are treated leaves you with that sick feeling in your stomach, hoping that this doesn’t happen in real life but knowing that deep down it probably does.
Having read all the prior novels in this series I was so excited to get this as an ARC and it has not disappointed.
Thank you NetGalley and Avon Books for the copy in exchange for an honest review.
This was another great page turner from Fields, I devoured it in a matter of hours and am already hungry for the next instalment. It opened my eyes to many things including the side of France that doesn’t pop into your head when you imagine Paris.
I especially loved following the development of DI Lively’s character in this book as in the first few novels he was a really odious man but in this book, you see another side to him, one that you makes you understand that there is two sides to every story. His dry humour, quick comments and raw emotion for the victims is a very welcome relief as the majority of book is very intense.
The whole series and especially this book are not for the faint hearted, the descriptions are gruesome and the way some of the victims are treated leaves you with that sick feeling in your stomach, hoping that this doesn’t happen in real life but knowing that deep down it probably does.
Having read all the prior novels in this series I was so excited to get this as an ARC and it has not disappointed.
Thank you NetGalley and Avon Books for the copy in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this story. Instead of the usual thriller style books that I have been reading recently, this one centres more from the point of the view of the detectives and we follow police procedure and processes etc. Not that the kidnapping and everything else that is going on wasn't important as that is what the police are looking for but, for me, the most interesting part of this is the police and detective work.
There is certainly a lot more than what meets the eye with this story. What starts off as a kidnapping turns into something completely different and a far larger problem than the detectives had originally anticipated including the trafficking of women for the sex trade.
I am sensing that there is a larger story to this that I haven't picked up as this is book 6 in the series and I haven't read any of the previous novels, but that didn't affect being able to just pick up and read this one as a stand alone but I am definitely intrigued to see what the bigger picture is in this series...
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There is certainly a lot more than what meets the eye with this story. What starts off as a kidnapping turns into something completely different and a far larger problem than the detectives had originally anticipated including the trafficking of women for the sex trade.
I am sensing that there is a larger story to this that I haven't picked up as this is book 6 in the series and I haven't read any of the previous novels, but that didn't affect being able to just pick up and read this one as a stand alone but I am definitely intrigued to see what the bigger picture is in this series...
For more reviews, please check out the link below:
Debra's Book Cafe
Debs :-)
Thank you Avon Books and Netgalley for a copy of Perfect Kill by Helen Fields for an honest review.
Perfect Kill is book 6 in a series I absolutely love! The characters are really focused on in this one and this is probably the first one you couldn’t read as a stand-alone. I loved how after 6 books, I could mostly guess how the characters would react but Helen Fields is still shocking me with the crimes she chooses for these characters to investigate. For a police procedural series, the mystery is always so interesting and complex.
No secret at this point that I am obsessed with this series and hope to be raving about it for years to come!
Perfect Kill is book 6 in a series I absolutely love! The characters are really focused on in this one and this is probably the first one you couldn’t read as a stand-alone. I loved how after 6 books, I could mostly guess how the characters would react but Helen Fields is still shocking me with the crimes she chooses for these characters to investigate. For a police procedural series, the mystery is always so interesting and complex.
No secret at this point that I am obsessed with this series and hope to be raving about it for years to come!
As soon as I see that Helen Fields has a new book out in this series, I get really excited. This series seems to go from strength to strength and Perfect Kill is no exception!
The story begins with Bart Campbell waking up in complete darkness. Drugged and kidnapped from his place of work in Edinburgh he soon realises he is in a shipping container. He arrives in France, where he is put in the boot of a car and taken to a room. Once there, he is being looked after with food and drink so has no idea why he has been taken.
DI Luc Callanach is back in France, temporarily working for Interpol while they try to trace human traffickers who are moving women around Europe. He is soon drafted in to an autopsy of a Scottish national, Malcolm Reilly who is missing all his internal organs.
Meanwhile back in Scotland DCI Ava Turner is juggling multiple cases, a shooting in a rough area of Edinburgh, the case of missing person Bart Campbell and women being brought into Scotland for sex slavery.
Before long, they realise that the victims being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked to Scotland. Covering the seedy world of sex slavery and illegal organ trading, there are some truly shocking moments in this book.
Helen Fields has real talent for crime fiction. Not only are the crimes shocking and pretty gruesome, the police procedure is done really well. Because she also writes from the victims point of view, you really feel their despair and pain. Not for the faint hearted – she doesn’t shy away from any of the gruesome details! A thrilling read, I couldn’t put it down.
And because this is the 6th book in the series, I really feel I know the characters well. Luc and Ava and their relationship is just perfect – how Fields has managed to keep the “will they, won’t they” up for 6 books without it being cheesy or annoying is just amazing!
Start at the beginning and read this whole series – you won’t regret it!
The story begins with Bart Campbell waking up in complete darkness. Drugged and kidnapped from his place of work in Edinburgh he soon realises he is in a shipping container. He arrives in France, where he is put in the boot of a car and taken to a room. Once there, he is being looked after with food and drink so has no idea why he has been taken.
DI Luc Callanach is back in France, temporarily working for Interpol while they try to trace human traffickers who are moving women around Europe. He is soon drafted in to an autopsy of a Scottish national, Malcolm Reilly who is missing all his internal organs.
Meanwhile back in Scotland DCI Ava Turner is juggling multiple cases, a shooting in a rough area of Edinburgh, the case of missing person Bart Campbell and women being brought into Scotland for sex slavery.
Before long, they realise that the victims being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked to Scotland. Covering the seedy world of sex slavery and illegal organ trading, there are some truly shocking moments in this book.
Helen Fields has real talent for crime fiction. Not only are the crimes shocking and pretty gruesome, the police procedure is done really well. Because she also writes from the victims point of view, you really feel their despair and pain. Not for the faint hearted – she doesn’t shy away from any of the gruesome details! A thrilling read, I couldn’t put it down.
And because this is the 6th book in the series, I really feel I know the characters well. Luc and Ava and their relationship is just perfect – how Fields has managed to keep the “will they, won’t they” up for 6 books without it being cheesy or annoying is just amazing!
Start at the beginning and read this whole series – you won’t regret it!
I like a book that can actually hold my attention from the first few pages and this one did.
Thank you NetGalley!
Thank you NetGalley!
Perfect Kill is perfectly disturbing, gripping, gritty crime thriller.
There are two cases one in Edinburgh that Ava and the MIT team are working on. Luc is working with Interpol on a human trafficking case. These cases are both connected in a really interesting way, it gives the story action on both sides of the channel.
As Ava and Luc are in a different country we don't get the normal banter between them. But lucky DS Lively is around for his nonsense humour. Also in Perfect Kill we get to see a nice gentler side of Lively which was sweet to see.
Something happens in Ava and Luc personal friendship group that will change things. The change I think will have a bigger impact in the next book which I am looking forward to see.
Regarding the two cases, both are gripping in there own rights and could have been told on there own. There is a moment when Luc and Jean-Paul are running in Paris it gave me The Bourne Identity fells.
I love Helen writing style as it's easy to read, fast-paced and engaging. I listened to a couple of the previous books on audible so now I am having a french accent in my head when Luc talking.
Perfect Kill can be read as a stand-alone, you get so much more from Luc and Ava relationship if you read the other books. Below are the order of the books.
Perfect Remains
Perfect Prey
Perfect Death
Perfect Silence
Perfect Crime
Luc Callanach is a swoon-worthy character but he dies one gesture in Perfect Kill that got me swooning hard.
The series just gets better book by book.
My rating for Perfect Kill is 5 out of 5.
Thank you to Netgalley and Avon for supplying me an e-book copy of Perfect Kill for a fair and honest review.
There are two cases one in Edinburgh that Ava and the MIT team are working on. Luc is working with Interpol on a human trafficking case. These cases are both connected in a really interesting way, it gives the story action on both sides of the channel.
As Ava and Luc are in a different country we don't get the normal banter between them. But lucky DS Lively is around for his nonsense humour. Also in Perfect Kill we get to see a nice gentler side of Lively which was sweet to see.
Something happens in Ava and Luc personal friendship group that will change things. The change I think will have a bigger impact in the next book which I am looking forward to see.
Regarding the two cases, both are gripping in there own rights and could have been told on there own. There is a moment when Luc and Jean-Paul are running in Paris it gave me The Bourne Identity fells.
I love Helen writing style as it's easy to read, fast-paced and engaging. I listened to a couple of the previous books on audible so now I am having a french accent in my head when Luc talking.
Perfect Kill can be read as a stand-alone, you get so much more from Luc and Ava relationship if you read the other books. Below are the order of the books.
Perfect Remains
Perfect Prey
Perfect Death
Perfect Silence
Perfect Crime
Luc Callanach is a swoon-worthy character but he dies one gesture in Perfect Kill that got me swooning hard.
The series just gets better book by book.
My rating for Perfect Kill is 5 out of 5.
Thank you to Netgalley and Avon for supplying me an e-book copy of Perfect Kill for a fair and honest review.
This is the sixth book by Helen Fields in the DI Luc Callanach series featuring DCI Ava Turner called Perfect Kill. It’s set in Edinburgh and abroad in Paris.
Bart lived at home with his mum and had a part-time job at a restaurant which he enjoyed as he could pick up extra shifts. His mum didn’t mind as he always woke her as he left the house with a cup of tea in the mornings and they helped look after each other. Only something must have gone wrong, Bart hadn’t woken her, she didn’t have her cup of tea and his bed hadn’t been slept in, where was he?
Bart didn’t remember leaving the restaurant when he woke up but now he was alone, in the dark and he was shut in somewhere and he was moving. He soon finds out that he’s tethered by his ankle to a pole in the middle of a room that has no door but there are bottles of water, a big bag of food and a bucket in a corner. He is a prisoner.
Bart’s mum is reporting him missing just as a body is found over in Paris with all it’s internal organs missing plus the eyes. DI Luc Callanach is liaising over there with Interpol with another case. He let’s DCI Turner know. They become involved as it turns out to be a missing person from Edinburgh. How did a missing person from Edinburgh turn up in Paris when he didn’t leave the country? His passport is still at home. Why would all his organs be missing?
There are other strange happenings around Edinburgh as well with other killings happening. One is where at least three remains are found, by a farmer, in with his pigs that need investigating. Where have the bodies come from? How long have they been there? If the farmer had been behind it, he wouldn’t be likely to report it, would he?
Wow, this was a brilliant read from start to finish and was a roller coaster of a ride! It was unputdownable and I loved every minute of it. I have some catching up to do on this series but this made me realise how much I love it. 5 out of 5 stars
Bart lived at home with his mum and had a part-time job at a restaurant which he enjoyed as he could pick up extra shifts. His mum didn’t mind as he always woke her as he left the house with a cup of tea in the mornings and they helped look after each other. Only something must have gone wrong, Bart hadn’t woken her, she didn’t have her cup of tea and his bed hadn’t been slept in, where was he?
Bart didn’t remember leaving the restaurant when he woke up but now he was alone, in the dark and he was shut in somewhere and he was moving. He soon finds out that he’s tethered by his ankle to a pole in the middle of a room that has no door but there are bottles of water, a big bag of food and a bucket in a corner. He is a prisoner.
Bart’s mum is reporting him missing just as a body is found over in Paris with all it’s internal organs missing plus the eyes. DI Luc Callanach is liaising over there with Interpol with another case. He let’s DCI Turner know. They become involved as it turns out to be a missing person from Edinburgh. How did a missing person from Edinburgh turn up in Paris when he didn’t leave the country? His passport is still at home. Why would all his organs be missing?
There are other strange happenings around Edinburgh as well with other killings happening. One is where at least three remains are found, by a farmer, in with his pigs that need investigating. Where have the bodies come from? How long have they been there? If the farmer had been behind it, he wouldn’t be likely to report it, would he?
Wow, this was a brilliant read from start to finish and was a roller coaster of a ride! It was unputdownable and I loved every minute of it. I have some catching up to do on this series but this made me realise how much I love it. 5 out of 5 stars
I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. Thank you to the author, Helen Fields, and the publisher, Avon Books UK, for this opportunity.
Full review available at warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com
I always say that I won’t pick up a book that’s part of a series without reading the previous books but here I am, once again, reading the sixth book in a series without reading the first five! It wasn’t an issue with this book though because I fell into the story right away, captivated from the very beginning.
Perfect Kill is not a book I’d recommend if you’re squeamish. It was violent from the very beginning and the opening chapter had such an impact on me as a reader that I felt compelled to continue reading. I found the plot very intriguing and it’s a horrifying but disturbingly compelling tale of people trafficking, forced prostitution, and murder. I do love this genre of fiction so it came as no surprise to me that I enjoyed reading this book.
I really liked Fields’ writing style because it felt so authentic and natural. This really helped me to connect with the story and the characters. It was also fast-paced and full of action, as a crime novel should be, and the characters were very well-written. I really liked the characterisation of both Luc and Ava as they were complex, multi-faceted characters and they behaved like actual people. Sometimes, the physical descriptions of the characters took me out of the story completely. I’m not sure why but it was just something that I didn’t gel with as a reader and I found it oddly jarring.
I’m assuming that there were plenty of references to the previous books that I just didn’t understand since I’m new to the series but nothing felt too vital to the plot of this book. I didn’t feel hindered by my lack of knowledge about this series but, as always, it’s probably best to read the other books in the series first.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! It was punchy and authentic and just a really good thriller/crime novel. I’m really tempted to go back and read the rest of the series now. I’d highly recommend it if you’re a fan of this genre.
Full review available at warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com
I always say that I won’t pick up a book that’s part of a series without reading the previous books but here I am, once again, reading the sixth book in a series without reading the first five! It wasn’t an issue with this book though because I fell into the story right away, captivated from the very beginning.
Perfect Kill is not a book I’d recommend if you’re squeamish. It was violent from the very beginning and the opening chapter had such an impact on me as a reader that I felt compelled to continue reading. I found the plot very intriguing and it’s a horrifying but disturbingly compelling tale of people trafficking, forced prostitution, and murder. I do love this genre of fiction so it came as no surprise to me that I enjoyed reading this book.
I really liked Fields’ writing style because it felt so authentic and natural. This really helped me to connect with the story and the characters. It was also fast-paced and full of action, as a crime novel should be, and the characters were very well-written. I really liked the characterisation of both Luc and Ava as they were complex, multi-faceted characters and they behaved like actual people. Sometimes, the physical descriptions of the characters took me out of the story completely. I’m not sure why but it was just something that I didn’t gel with as a reader and I found it oddly jarring.
I’m assuming that there were plenty of references to the previous books that I just didn’t understand since I’m new to the series but nothing felt too vital to the plot of this book. I didn’t feel hindered by my lack of knowledge about this series but, as always, it’s probably best to read the other books in the series first.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! It was punchy and authentic and just a really good thriller/crime novel. I’m really tempted to go back and read the rest of the series now. I’d highly recommend it if you’re a fan of this genre.