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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
More, more.. I need more! I love Luc and Ava so much I cannot get enough of them. Another fantastic installment to this series!
Sometimes it’s very hard to read books about stories that you heard all your early school years because I was born and raised in an Eastern European country and the main plot of this book is about human trafficking and organ sellers on the black market.
It’s a very well written story with great characters and a gripping read that unfortunately, comes from real-life stories that are still happening.
It’s my first book by the author but I’m going to read more because there’s a back story between the characters that I’m really curious about and want to know more. They are challenging and compelling and I loved how their characters developed.
It’s a very well written story with great characters and a gripping read that unfortunately, comes from real-life stories that are still happening.
It’s my first book by the author but I’m going to read more because there’s a back story between the characters that I’m really curious about and want to know more. They are challenging and compelling and I loved how their characters developed.
Goodness gracious me. Where do I even begin?
In Perfect Kill, the reader gets a double dose of depravity as DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach work separate cases. Ava and her team are up in Scotland, while Luc has joined up with a former colleague at Interpol in France. Soon these cases will collide, with lives at stake on both sides of the Channel.
Few people manage to come up with the most evil and disturbing characters quite the way Helen Fields does. Characters that get under your skin, characters that make you want to take a really long shower, characters that have you glaring at the pages of the book, wishing you could hurt them somehow. They are truly vile and utterly despicable.
The reading experience is elevated by putting the reader right there, in the middle with the potential victims. We meet Bart, who wakes up one morning and realises he isn’t in his cosy bed at his mother’s home. Instead he finds himself chained in a dark and windowless place, location unknown. And then there’s Elenuta from Romania, who came to Scotland with the promise of a better life. Need I say more?
Some of these chapters are immensely uncomfortable to read. I winced, I felt sad and angry, I feared for these characters’ lives. These chapters are upsetting, powerful, raw and brutal. I often needed a moment to recover from the horror and brutality, the absolutely horrendous ways some people treat other people for sheer pleasure and entertainment, for money, and all the while it unfortunately all felt so incredibly realistic and believable. It’s sadly easy to imagine that these things do actually happen and these thoughts will linger on your mind long after you’ve finished the book.
So, not exactly for the faint-hearted, I suppose, but that’s something I’ve become used to from Helen Fields. Perfect Kill has many themes that haunt modern society, which lift this book to a whole other level in the crime fiction genre. The “Perfect” series has always been able to stand out from the crowd but this latest addition is really something else altogether. Gritty and raw, I perversely loved every minute of it. I’m not entirely sure what that says about me.
Due to lack of time, I often need to make the tough decision to drop a series because I can no longer keep up but I feel quite confident that this series right here will never be one of them. It is just that good and all that’s left for me to say is : bring on book seven!
In Perfect Kill, the reader gets a double dose of depravity as DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach work separate cases. Ava and her team are up in Scotland, while Luc has joined up with a former colleague at Interpol in France. Soon these cases will collide, with lives at stake on both sides of the Channel.
Few people manage to come up with the most evil and disturbing characters quite the way Helen Fields does. Characters that get under your skin, characters that make you want to take a really long shower, characters that have you glaring at the pages of the book, wishing you could hurt them somehow. They are truly vile and utterly despicable.
The reading experience is elevated by putting the reader right there, in the middle with the potential victims. We meet Bart, who wakes up one morning and realises he isn’t in his cosy bed at his mother’s home. Instead he finds himself chained in a dark and windowless place, location unknown. And then there’s Elenuta from Romania, who came to Scotland with the promise of a better life. Need I say more?
Some of these chapters are immensely uncomfortable to read. I winced, I felt sad and angry, I feared for these characters’ lives. These chapters are upsetting, powerful, raw and brutal. I often needed a moment to recover from the horror and brutality, the absolutely horrendous ways some people treat other people for sheer pleasure and entertainment, for money, and all the while it unfortunately all felt so incredibly realistic and believable. It’s sadly easy to imagine that these things do actually happen and these thoughts will linger on your mind long after you’ve finished the book.
So, not exactly for the faint-hearted, I suppose, but that’s something I’ve become used to from Helen Fields. Perfect Kill has many themes that haunt modern society, which lift this book to a whole other level in the crime fiction genre. The “Perfect” series has always been able to stand out from the crowd but this latest addition is really something else altogether. Gritty and raw, I perversely loved every minute of it. I’m not entirely sure what that says about me.
Due to lack of time, I often need to make the tough decision to drop a series because I can no longer keep up but I feel quite confident that this series right here will never be one of them. It is just that good and all that’s left for me to say is : bring on book seven!
For my full review, go to:
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!
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!
I liked this episode the least from the series. I hate it when favourite crime teams are sent abroad, which is the essence of this volume. How unlikely is it that a case with his old Interpol partner is running a case that links directly with the MIT in Edinburgh? 'nuff said
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
A young man wakes up to find himself shackled in a container - he has no idea how he got there. A body discovered in France with all its organs removed. Young women being trafficked from Europe to Scotland and held as sex slaves. The cases are being investigated by DCI Ava Turner in Edinburgh and Detective Luc Callanach on secondment with Interpol in Pars.
Fantastic read from start to finish - really love this series.
Thanks to Netgalley, Avon Books and Helen Fields for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.
Fantastic read from start to finish - really love this series.
Thanks to Netgalley, Avon Books and Helen Fields for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.
I hadn't read any Helen Fields coming into this book, and am sorry that I am late to the game with her. The pace was exciting and the storyline interesting, and works equally well for people familiar with the characters and those, like me, going in having not read any other books in the series.
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No