Review: Perfect Prey by Helen Fields

DI Luc Callanach has been with Police Scotland for nine months, and his second high-profile case has just become the city’s newest talking point. A series of gruesome murders, each seemingly unconnected and without motive, has gripped the city, leaving the coppers and the media floundering and spread thin. Together with DI Ava Turner, the Police Scotland team frantically tries to piece together any clues they can. However, when a local journalists helps Callanach identify a pattern, it seems possible to that the deaths can stop, if only they can get to the perpetrator before the next victim’s time runs out.

As if having multiple homicides to deal with isn’t enough, Callanach needs to contend with DCI Joe Edgar, an obnoxious cybercrime specialist sent from London, who has ties with DI Turner’s past, complicating the pair’s friendship and working environment.

I started my love affair with DI Luc Callanach and co in Fields’ first book in the series, Perfect Remains. Since putting that one down, I’ve been (im)patiently waiting more, and Perfect Prey delivered 100%. An added advantage of being a fan girl to such a series is that you risk being disappointed with new stories and characters, but not so in DI Callanach’s case – truthfully, I cannot find any fault with this book.

Helen Fields is like a drug pusher – her stuff is so good, you stay up at night thinking about it, and try to get all your friends to try it, and then they get addicted. She carefully crafts a story which unfolds so cleverly that you don’t want to put the book away and risk missing anything (I read a large portion of the book in the car while road tripping…) Perhaps most impressive, especially if you devour books as I do and are quick to spot patterns and predict the identity of killers, is that nothing in Prefect Prey is predictable. The suspense hooks you right until the end, when Fields gives up the goods, and proves you (refreshingly) wrong in your guesses. I loved it.

Allow me to live up to my comparison and say that you need to read this book; it’ll change your life and make you cool. Well, at the very least, you’ll have an excellent time.

Perfect Prey by Helen Fields in published by avon books (an imprint of Harper Collins) and is available in South Africa from Jonathan Ball Publishers.