Interesting and unusual thriller set between Edinburgh and France. Storylines between the main characters are developing as the action moves swiftly forward. Many a twist.

Oh wow.... I’ve literally just finished this book! I read over 40% in one sitting. This was a gruesome book ( one of the worst I’ve read) and very graphic, though written so brilliantly I really couldn’t put it down. This is a series of books and one of the main character is called Luc ( I’ve read another one of the series) which I really enjoyed but this one really was exceptional. Well done Helen I can only imagine the amount of research that went into this book as it covered two very different subjects so so well. Hoping there’s another one to follow soon.

The 6th book in the DI Callanach series and I absolutely loved it!! It was fast paced with lots of twists. Two investigations, one in France where Callanach is back on secondment working with his old partner and another seemingly unrelated one regarding people trafficking in Scotland.

I love the characters in the series and think that you should read all the books in order to understand them and their relationships. It covers a lot of serious issues in this book and is pretty gruesome in parts.

The books are exciting and real page turners and the injections of humour with the team give some lightheared relief. Can't wait for the next one

I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, and I was worried I’d struggle to fully understand what was going on. I was wrong and easily got into the story.

I must say... it was a lot darker than I thought it would be. Don’t get me wrong, I do like a fairly dark read, I’m just not sure even I was prepared for how dark and impactful the descriptions were in this book. It’s been appearing in my nightmares!

I think it is especially chilling due to the latest news with the loss of 39 lives found in a lorry in Essex. I can’t say I ‘enjoyed’ this book as such, it was very gripping / thrilling, written really well, and a good ending. It’s just so scary and sad at the same time!

Hard to be unbiased about this book as I have read and really enjoyed all the previous books in the series.

This was a really hard book to read and didn’t shy away from the brutality and barbarity of the crimes being committed.

Thank you to Avon and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review.

Another great page turning book in the DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach series. With Callanach on secondment in France, investigating a murder and Turner in Scotland looking into a missing person case, their professional and personal worlds meet. A gritty and macabre storyline which develops the series but can be read as a stand-alone book.

This is a brilliant series. There is a lot of suspense throughout this story. I read this in one sitting. I was hooked and glued to the spot from the start. I really like the characters and the storyline is creepy and dark.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Alone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped, the realisation soon dawns that he’s been locked inside a shipping container far from his Edinburgh home. But what Bart doesn’t yet know is that he’s now heading for France where his unspeakable fate is already sealed. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes clear that the men and women being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked into Scotland. With so many lives at stake, they face an impossible task – but there’s no option of failure when Bart and so many others will soon be dead.

We are back with Turner and Callanach with this read and once again, Fields ensures we re-enter a dark world. There are two main plot threads to this, Turner's investigation and Callanach's. Yes they do come together at times but they are separate and we see the characters in two very different situations. This helped ensure the book still felt fresh, one thing I like about Fields is the constant character development, they are never left to go stale and are always given new challenges to face.

Anyway back to the plot, this is very dark but it is not my favourite plot from Fields either. At times, this felt a bit dull and obvious, the excitement and high-intensity action was not a constant which was a real shame. Aside from this, I did really enjoy being thrown into this investigation.

I have mentioned we see Turner and Callanach in two very different situations which helps keep the book fresh, Fields also brings other characters to the forefront in this read, notably, Natalie, Lively and Graham. In this instalment, they have more of a major role to play and I loved learning more about these previously supporting characters and I feel I understood them more after reading this.

'Perfect Kill' is a great read for any fan of this series. Fields brings the danger, the darkness and gore but at times does lack the thrills.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for an advance copy.

I never repeat the blurb. This was another great installment in this excellent series. The only reason for 4* not 5* is that the splitting up of the team, needed after the previous book, meant that some of the characters didn't interact with the same familiar rapport and some of the flying visits etc seemed a tad unlikely in the midst of such serious investigations. Hopefully normal service will be resumed next time...looks like it. Very up to date and contemporary issues as usual.

An absolute racket of a thriller. I love this series. Always a good complex crime story, interspersed with the will they/won’t they story off Luc and Ava. This did not disappoint one iota, and am eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

Now, if you're like me, this series needs no introduction! Another great DI Callanach story - who is has been banished to France but quickly his and Ava's cases begin to intertwine.

I love this series, with all, even the supporting characters being well rounded and this book is no exception.

Perfect Kill is the 6th outing for Helen Fields' Turner and Callanach and as ever it's a well-written and gripping tale. As their relationship remains in turmoil Luc Callanach is in France helping Interpol while Ava Turner is in Scotland and waking up to a new case and not a little embarrassment. As it becomes apparent that the cases are linked Callanach and Turner find themselves working together on opposite sides of the Channel in a case that involves kidnapping, with a view to something readers might find hard to swallow, and sex trafficking.
Parts of the book are quite explicit,as is some of the language,and might be too much for some readers. being more hard-hitting than previous books in the series with some quite upsetting scenes. Parts of it stretch credulity but we're talking about a work of fiction written to entertain and it does that.
This is a worthy addition to the series, thought please be aware of the extreme violence and the language ,if the "C word" offends this isn't for you.
The ending is quite uplifting after what at times is a pretty grim read and I'm greatly looking forward to the next in the series.
Thanks to Helen Fields, Netgalley and Avon books for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Two young boys and a young girl missing. Luc Callanach on special duties in France whilst Ava Turner in Edinburgh , two top police investigators in their field suddenly become jointly involved in a case of people trafficking and illegal donor transplants. Personal relationships and misunderstandings that have shadowed these two protagonists in previous books must be put to one side if lives are to be saved. Slow methodical police work to figure out what is the crime and who are the perpetrators is played out against a ticking clock with time running out for the victims. This fast paced thriller has numerous strands to a multi faceted and complex crime investigation. Very much an investigation of modern times where police work relies upon cross border intelligence and awareness that in the modern era crime for profit is often the trade of people for illegal purposes. Several difficult subjects dealt with sensitively by the author whilst recognising and demonstrating in the writing style that the police are forced to adapt their methods to recognise the perpetrators if they are to resolve a new generation of crimes and identity the unlikely victims.. Concentration by the author on the investigation and less impetus on the romantic liaison between the chief protagonists has vastly improved this storyline allowing the reader to be swept along in this intricate and complicated investigation. A modern thoroughly enjoyable thriller using as both victim and perpetrators the underbelly of society for which most readers will be totally unaware .

Helen Fields has surpassed herself in the 6th book in the series of DI Callanach.

Perfect Kill is a chilling, page turning haunting story.

The topics of Luc's case in France and Ava's in Scotland are current and will have you shuddering.

I love Ava's whole team that work tirelessly and jeopardize their own safety to solve this horrendous case.

I relish this series and can't wait for Book 7 (no pressure).

Hope I sleep tonight.

Thanks to NetGalley and Avon Books UK to get involved in the gritty world of crime with Ava and Luc.

A gritty, action packed read. There were several threads running throughout the book and it kept the story exciting and gripping. I loved the way the story unfolded and the characters were well developed. I'm looking forward to reading the previous books in the series.

Absolutely fantastic read. This is pacy and gritty, with a dash of gore for good measure! I have loved all this series and they keep getting better. I also love the relationship between Ava and Luc. Can’t wait to see how that develops!!!! @NetGalley@PerfectKill

The story line is about human trafficking for various reasons. It is dealt in a very explicit way, I found myself really hoping for the victims to be rescued. I have read the first book in this series which I didn’t like that much, felt it to be a bit gory. This one was very nicely written and I finished it in one day. I pray for the victims of trafficking in real life also to be rescued.

It felt really weird to be reading this last week, the same week a lorry container containing the bodies of 38 men and women was found in Essex. The bodies are believed to have been smuggled into England, and although ''Perfect Kill'' focuses on trafficked women and men, the similarity is chillingly realistic. Whilst it is unthinkable to imagine the horror and desperation the real-life victims suffered, Helen Fields manages to convey some of the panic they very obviously went through.

And so we lead into yet another ''Perfect'' instalment of the Callanach and Turner series, and whilst it isn’t essential that you’ve read the previous 5 books, I would of course recommend them wholeheartedly. Luscious Luc is still over the channel in France with Interpol investigating human trafficking when he joins ex-colleague and ex-friend Jean-Paul to work on a case involving a macabre murder. It was good to read the relationship between the two and see how it developed over the course of the book, particularly as Luc seemed much more in control mentally over the events of the past that saw him wrongly accused of rape. His involvement in the case proves vital to the missing person case DCI Ava Turner and her team find themselves working and thus the two of them are thrust once again together.

Now if you haven’t read any of Field’s previous books, Luc and Ava are going through what can only be described as a rocky patch in their relationship. The ripple of attraction that kept me hooked for the first few novels having washed upon the shore and crashed out somewhat painfully; so in ''Perfect Kill'' they have to find their way out of the maelstrom of emotions they both feel to a more harmonious working life. And, even though I’m being denied the happiness of seeing them together, it is satisfying to read of them coming-back to the crack team they initially proved themselves to be.

The crimes they are investigating are as disturbing as I mentioned at the start, there are no real light moments, but whilst they are written realistically they’re thankfully not gratuitously macabre. I suppose what I’m trying to say as ineloquently as usual is, the subject makes you think yet won’t make you feel too uncomfortable reading it! I’ve probably not clarified that at all have I? Anyway, the writing is as engaging as ever, as once again Helen Fields proves herself to be worthy of one of the places at the top of many a must-read list. The action is kept at a steady place throughout, and there’s not a moment of slowness at all, the gaps between the action being filled with the dramas unfolding around it. The lives of the varying team members being as gripping as the crimes themselves,

I really could waffle on for ages about this series, and this book, but that would be boring for everyone involved I’m sure, so I’ll finish in my usual way of saying; this Is another cracking read from Helen Fields. ''Perfect Kill'' is out on 6th February 2020, be sure to beg, borrow or buy a copy as soon as you can.

Perfect Kill is the sixth book in the D.I. Callanch series, and I had to dive right into it the moment I finished Perfect Crime. I needed to see what came next for Luc, I needed to see how the new mystery would develop, and such left me devouring this one in a single sitting. I could not put it down, I was hooked.

Once again, Helen Fields has given a mystery that has you sucked in deep from the very first page. There are multiple elements to this story, leaving you to try and piece together how all the elements go together. With the elements playing out across both Scotland and France, you get to see a lot of all the characters we have come to love. Add in the details of what is happening to the victims, and the book grips you in multiple ways.

It’s not only a great mystery, Perfect Kill also continues the personal story we’ve been watching build throughout the series. There were elements introduced in this one that I did not expect, and it’s left me curious to see how things will progress in the future books. In fact, there was a lot of development for multiple characters, and it’s pulled me ever deeper into their lives.

With a twisted crime that keeps you hooked and the personal touches that leave you invested in the characters, Perfect Kill is guaranteed to leave you desperate for the next book in the series. I simply wish I could jump right into it.

Thanks to Netgalley and the pub lisher for the ARC in return for an unbiased review.
I'd like ot be unbiased as stated above but as someone who hads read all the publications in this series it is difficult.
This book investigates people trafficing and the illegal harvesting of body organs.
Set in Scotland and France the two main characters once again are Ava & Luc.
Really good story with a few twists along the way.
Think this series is just getting better and better.