Very grateful to Helen and her lovely publisher for organising me an early review copy. I started this book with very high expectations as I am a big fan of Helen's books and have not been let down yet... If you haven't read them then please do - but I suggest for best results do read in order. (She also writes as HS Chandler, in case you didn't know) This is the 6th perfect book and I found the style to be slightly different from the previous ones, I felt I needed to slow my reading pace down to fully appreciate it. The plot is jam packed and is brilliantly written. I already love Helen's characters so a great opportunity to return to their lives. I believe this is her best yet! So yes, I am already now pacing around for a) the opportunity to recommend it to everyone next year on release but also to see what she writes next! Definitely recommended, her best yet and may even feature in my top 10 crime reads for 2019, but don't tell her!

It’s so great to be back with Luc and Ava in this new book in the DI Callanach series. Typically, the books are set in Edinburgh, however after the disastrous attempt at a relationship, Luc and Ava have split personally and professionally; this book also splits its setting between France and Scotland in a story of brutal kidnapping, the extreme sex trade industry and human trafficking for nefarious purposes. As always, the plot is intelligently constructed and hooks you in right from the start. There’re some tough scenes that are both brutal and disturbing, but never gratuitous or glorifying. I really enjoyed seeing Luc and Ava both passionately working to catch the lowest of criminality; they were separate for a lot of the novel, but Fields provides enough reconnection between the two to keep the reader of this series satisfied. This can be read as a stand-alone, however as always I highly recommend reading this great crime series from the start to really benefit from the characters, their personal characters threads and relationships. Highly recommended.

Haven't read a good estate pimping ground book in a while. On DI Ava Turner's two bodies turning up in the same week is quickly becoming either a turf war or very big coincidence. We follow a woman from the inside as she makes a horrendous discovery relating to races. As DI Luc Callanach was sent over to France to liaise with Interpol he is soon able to help with a body of a young Glaswegian missing person. All the main body parts for transplants have been removed, even the eyes. The turnover seems to not have been long. Will another body be found or can they find the source? This can be read as a stand alone as enough is there for the gist of previous books and relationships within the team in Scotland. I liked how gritty this was, although I love Field's books for more than one crime being investigated in a book, this one was a first going overseas. So much was going on I did think this might be a book one of two but it sped up at the end & even more mayhem was packed into the pages. Loved the human side to the story and was letting out a ragged breath of relief by the end. Great read if you love crime and a fast pace set in chapters.

What can I say I will read anything Helen Fields writes I love the perfect series and have recommended them to anyone that would listen - and many listened and are also hooked. I love the two central characters and how they have developed over each book. Needless to say Perfect Kill does not disappoint. I know the word page turner is banded about so much but in the case of this book (and the previous) it is totally true. To say much would give it away but grab a copy and read the only warning is you will not be able to put it down!

Wow! 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.