'Perfect Crime'

Helen Fields

Publisher: Avon Publications / 2019

Pages: 404

This is the fifth book in the popular series of thrillers by Helen Fields, all beginning with the word Perfect - Perfect Remains, Perfect Prey, Perfect Death and Perfect Silence.

All set in and around Edinburgh, sometimes described as the "murder Capital of Europe".

The book begins with a very public suicide attempt on Forth Bridge.

That attempt was prevented by a suicide prevention counsellor who happened to be passing by.

But then, a few days later, this same man is found dead at the foot of a cliff.

Then, inexplicably, the deaths suddenly multiply - an elderly woman who lives almost as a recluse is found dead in a bath.

A man is found violently electrocuted.

These are carefully curated deaths, nothing like the impulsive suicides they've been made out to be.

Detective Inspector Luc Callanach and his superior Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate.

Between them there is a long history of working together and defending each other. And even something else besides.

But then something happens and the trust melts away and, with it, the possibility of coming to the root of all this upsurge of unconnected deaths.