Hi Cara,
Today review is regarding book 6 in Helen Fields D.I Callanah series. The book is called Perfect Kill, and its published 6th February 2020.
He had never heard himself scream before. It was terrifying.
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.
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.
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 suppling me an e-book copy of Perfect Kill for a fair and honest review.
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