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"Perfect Kill" by Helen Fields is a fast-paced and suspenseful crime novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The author does an excellent job of building tension and keeping the reader engaged from beginning to end. The writing style is smooth and easy to follow, and the characters are well-developed and memorable. If you're a fan of crime and mystery novels, "Perfect Kill" is a must-read. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a gripping and thrilling read.

Fantastic fiction from Helen Fields, I love Luc Callanachs character - the flawed detective with such a lot of baggage!

Wow!
Perfect Kill is dark and grim it felt closer to a horror than a crime thriller at times.

Perfect Kill has two main storylines going on simultaneously. Ava is in Edinburgh investigating a steadily growing number of murders and trying to deal with her turbulent social life.

Luc, meanwhile, is in Paris working as a liaison with Interpol where a dumped body of a Scottish teen shows all the signs of organ trafficking.

Unsurprisingly there are links between the two cases, but I did like the fact that they were two separate cases, with no overall criminal organisation or individual binding the two together.

Luc and Ava are both highly engaging leads and clearly have a lot of history between them that I now have to go back and explore in the earlier books. In this one they've been friends, become something more than friends and are now something less than that, with an awkward silence between them.

Which is the perfect time to mention Natasha, their friend. Tasha is going through her own battles, but the bits where she sits Ava down and gives her a good talking to left me wishing I could go round with a takeaway and a bottle of wine, tell her my own relationship problems and get some of that caring but no nonsense advice. Tasha is brilliant and I love her.

The rest of the police team are well fleshed out, with plenty of in jokes, teasing and people having their own issues. These are kept minor enough to not distract from the main thrust of the book but enough to make them feel real.

The victims were very well written, showing us them as real people with their own cares and desires and not just as people put there to be in peril.

This book is dark. Very dark. So dark, in fact, that people trafficking, prostitution, rape and organ theft is what happens before things take a nasty turn. That warning dutifully delivered, it is also told with a sensitivity and never gratuitously.

Perfect Kill left me shaken, but anticipating more Ava and Luc.

Perfect Kill Helen Fields is the sixth book of the new fantastic D.I. Callanach series and this series is Superb and set in Edinburgh, Scotland. The main characters, DCI Luc Callanach and DCS Ava Turner of the Edinburgh Major Investigation Team brilliant and so interesting they are great characters. This series is just brilliant from the very first book and been a roller coaster ride with great twists and turns I have really enjoyed these books.

I highly recommend this book. I loved it

Thank you NetGalley and Avon Books for this ARC for an honest review.

I rate this 3.5.
This is the 4th book I've read in this series and I have to say it's my least favourite.

It was too busy, there was too much going on. It was far fetched and unbelievable.

The reason why this series works so well is because of Luc and Ava. So to have them apart for most of the book lessened my enjoyment.

Also, the violence against the women in this book was too much for me at times.

Fabulous plot which I could not put down. Brilliant characters, and twists and turns. Highly recommend to other fans of this genre!!

This book is part of a series which I hadn’t realised, and I haven’t read the other books in the series.
It does work as a stand alone but I felt I was missing a lot of the background information on the characters and found it difficult to connect to them.

The story is set in Scotland and France. A young man goes missing and his mum raises the alarm when he doesn’t return home. He’s in a shipping container heading for France. A body is found in France with the organs harvested.
Women are being trafficked and sexually abused in a horrific event known as “the race”.
The police investigate and begin to find links between the organ harvesters and the traffickers.

There is a lot of graphic description of sexual assault and really crude language relating to this.
I think the author is trying to show the real, dark side of human trafficking, but I didn’t find it was dealt with very sensitively.

I found the story very disjointed and I wasn’t too keen to keep reading and find out what was going to happen.
I couldn’t connect to the characters at all but that’s maybe because I haven’t read the other books in the series.

I didn’t find that the story picked up much or really engaged me. Some parts I felt were overly dramatic and nonsensical.

Unfortunately I didn’t really enjoy this book and I’m not sure I would read more from this series.

Another perfect addition to the perfect series. Really enjoy the characters development throughout. Can’t wait for the next instalment

This is my favourite crime fiction series. I am not biased because I am based in Edinburgh. Helen Fields has created two characters that have grown with you alongside each book in the series. I love that in Perfect Kill we go to yet another level. Scotland and France both feature in the book this time around. I know when I pick up a Helen Fields novel that I am in for an exciting reading adventure.

This is the 6th book in the D.I. Callanach series and they keep getting better. I don't think you need to read the previous books to understand this one, but I do recommend it. I felt as if the book had me in a trance, from which I could not come out until I finished it. It is intense and the story is not easy to digest, but it is very well written and the characters well developed. The writing style is perfect for this genre of book, that kind of style that keeps you on your toes until the last sentence of the book. If you like thrillers, crime, and suspense stories, this is a book for you.

Another great book in this police procedural series.
I love the characters in this series and the storyline is so interesting.
This is an excellent story and it’s a fast paced thriller

Perfect Kill by Helen Fields. What a whirlwind of action! Well developed and interesting characters with completely vile villains. The crimes are disturbing and difficult to read. First book in the DI Callanach series that I have read and it won't be the last. Enjoyed following Ava and Luc and the rest of the team.

I love this series; Luc and Ava are so well drawn, and Perfect Kill is no exception, I can’t wait for more.

I very much enjoyed this book. It has a good story and excellent main characters. I would definately recommend this book.

Each and every book by Helen I read, is just better than the previous one, I just can't believe how she manages to improve with every book. This book I read in one sitting, and I was spinning throughout all the twists and turns. Recommended for anyone who loves a great book by a very talented author.
TB

Another addition to this consistently entertaining series.I think it helps if you have read its predecessors but it is easily good enough to read as a stand-alone novel.

It is to the authors credit that she is able to maintain such a high standard. Highly recommended.

Another cracking read from Helen Fields, who never disappoints. Gripping from start to finish and very dark in theme. Enjoyed catching up with Ava and Luc again.

Perfect Kill By Helen Fields
This is the first book I've read by this author, and I don't know why she hasn't been on my radar until now.
I thoroughly enjoyed this well written thriller. I loved the two main characters, Ava and Luc. After reading this book, I definitely want to catch up on the series.
At times I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, to see how the story would end.
This thriller is fast paced, and very enjoyable.

I loved this book. I have read the other books in the series and they do not disappoint. I love the characters and the story is always well written. Loved it