Perfect Kill by Helen Fields

 

DI Luc Callanach is working with Interpol in Paris on uncovering people trafficking gangs while DCI Ava Turner and the rest of the team in Edinburgh have to deal with finding a young man who has gone missing and a shocking number of dead bodies.

Perfect Kill, the sixth book in the Luc Callanach and Ava Turner series, hits the ground running from the outset and never lets up. We open with the abduction of a young man, jump to people trafficking and then on to organ harvesting all in the space of the first three chapters. Once author Helen Fields allows you to draw breath you realise that there are possible connections between all three crimes.

Luc Callanach is in Paris, liaising with Interpol to try and track down some of the people trafficking gangs. It seems very strange not having Callanach and Turner working together but it is understandable given the events of the fifth book in the series, Perfect Crime. The return to Paris raises issues for Callanach. He's always thought of France as his home, despite being driven out years early by false accusations. Now that he's got the chance to return to Paris and work with some of his ex-colleagues he realises that Scotland is now the place he thinks of as home.

As the various crimes are investigated it becomes obvious that there are links, the only problem being that in Edinburgh people are too terrified to talk to the police and in Paris the operation is hidden under layers of secrecy. 

When Callanach returns to Edinburgh for a flying visit you are holding your breath, hoping that the pair will overcome the problems that arose in the last book. Things initially look positive as Ava admits she overreacted, however, Callanach concedes that he was at fault in the first place and thinks they should just be friends. At this point, I wanted to scream and just bang their heads together.

As the investigations continue the clues start to fall into place and we then have two action-packed, adrenaline-fueled scenes where everyone's life is at risk. Your heart is thumping and you are holding your breath as you turn the pages, wondering who will survive the brutal events taking place. 

Completion of this book now brings me up to date with the series as I actually started with the seventh book in the series, One For Sorrow. All I can do now is wait in the hope that there will be an eighth book following the explosive events of book seven.