Perfect Prey (D.I. Callanach, #2)

by Helen Sarah Fields

It took Callanach a few seconds to figure out what Tripp was talking about,

Man he really does need sleep, heh

Someone who could find their way around parts of the internet hidden to the vast majority.

Ooohhh scare the pure ‘normal’ people who see catchphrases like Dark Web or maybe Silk Road and think of all the nasties that exist if only you peel a way back the onion skins… ;)

the image he’d always had of computer experts.

Really? I imagine geeky know it alls who don’t give a toss what anyone thinks as they know everything you don’t, and they’d be right. Oh yeah gaming, metal hacking & ramen, at least while younger.

Deep Web,

Aka Dark

‘Don’t touch my computer,’ Lively grumbled, brushing Callanach’s hand away

Is he ever going to reprimand him?

The two of them communicated as only childhood friends could

Yeah, and then they F you over so deeply your rocked to your core.

entangled in a previous case.

Huh? She effectively WAS the entire case!

woman

Insert couple I’m stuck at that as groups doing murders like this are rare to nonexistent, although, never count your serial killers before they’ve been caught…

‘Monumental fuck-up. No more press cons without me present.

Yo give her her due, snd mind you I’d never be like that, ever, but there’s one thing I learned from working in a hospital, everywhere, especially places where there’s a ‘ladder’ everyone has someone above them and someone below. Work it was like top hospital management, then surgeons, then doctors, then nurses, anaesthetic techs etc, then us - sterilization techs and then various other workers all the way way down to cleaners etc

But the email itself is ultimately linked to one IP address

As long as it’s static, a dynamic one’s a different story For anyone who doesn’t know snd whose live is sadder than mine so they’ve taken to read crap like this… A static IP address stays the same number always A dynamic number changes all the time Although this was much more prevalent with just dialup connections, it’s still a possibility, as is the fact someone can use any email address to send msgs

opened a bottle of wine. He’d had to stick to a driving-appropriate amount of alcohol at Lance’s, but not now.

That’s what I’m holding out for, well not wine, cider. My home is lost to the floods, I’m stuck living with my Mummy Dearest until I can find and rent somewhere new for up to a bloody year, and FUCK IT! I so So SO want a drink just to obliterate the voices, my sadness, just for a little while, and my Mummy Dearest has denied me to having even a sip of anything alcoholic here. :|

Bunny’s

She wouldn’t be a plant would she? It’s just if anyone sounded like a plant for the asshole, then she’s be #1 on the hit parade…

Was this the killer boasting, or trying to get caught before he did the act?’

Neither, both my little red fishies & my spidey web are in agreement with this, so much so that they’re sipping whiskey in their pool waiting for Ava & Callan to catch up… This is our guesstimate… 2 killers, at least, but I’m stuck on 2, they’re naming & shaming and doing it to hurt not the victims, but someone close to them, I’m guessing fathers but my deadly duo other sides of myself say it could be mothers too.

‘Speak English, you fucking Froggie,’ one of the men ordered.

They’re either the baddies, the computer ones, or it’s a love rival attack Ok I came back to add this line … it’s both, I think so anyways, if I’m wrong I’ll go swimming with fishies, my little red ones will adore it! And NO splashing the spidey web, it takes her forever to fix all those torn parts of her web, I mean it this time too! ;)

With a man like that, you knew he could be your friend one minute and your worst enemy the next.

Seems I know someone very much the same

‘There’ll be no more late night rendezvous with

Ding a ling ding I think ‘super cop’ is a baddie for one & two I was right, three he’ll find out who they are, accents help…

Edinburgh’s old nuclear bunkers had been converted into a visitor attraction,

They did that here with old WW1 & 2 bunkers etc, I can remember going on school trips to see them and they’re open to the public, there’s a tiny one by the beach where I grew up on, only a 1 person rounded metal dome/cave thingy. Oh such simpler times, when you knew who was good and who was bad, today it’s just different, sadder, we’ve come so far and yet we still repeat the same mistakes that we should of learnt from. That will be our downfall, like a psychopath needs to be named & feared and see it all in bright shining lights, so do those who have the power to incite Armageddon, but then I guess they’re psychopaths of a slightly higher order. :|

sociopaths.

You don’t say

paracetamol.’

Do people think they really work?

“Lollipop lady”.

Still in the same line of work. And I reiterate I detest the dumbing down of characters. If I worked it out pretty much instantaneously, so should of they.

anyone in Edinburgh with a paint can in their pocket is likely to get lynched,’ Salter said.

Or worse people will jump on that snd start doing their own, graffiti I mean, not killing, although, you never know…

Callanach wondered again about the programmer’s motivation

He’s a goodie sent to get to whoever’s behind this, like his Lordship

She picked up their glasses,

Ding ding for her too, she’s more than she seems, but a good one, I think

‘La 55.95741075489907/Lo -3.19568574178561.’

longitude & latitude

‘Those are

Ding ding

Precious few are able to access it.’

Not so much anymore, while most people still have no clue about it, more people of younger generations are. Way back I lived on IRC which I guess was a baby dark web, it’s still there but I haven’t been on in ages, but like the DW you needed to be careful and you needed help to get into certain areas, if you weren’t vouched for forget it, you’d see general channels, but none of the ones where anything deeper was going on. The people who ran it weren’t ones you’d like to peeve off.

invitation-only usability.

You don’t say

He tried to keep the memory of what Edgar had done to him out of it.

I know why Ava’s so conflicted, my little red fishies whispered it in my ears as I was falling asleep last night. She’s a spy in the digital camp, that’s why she’s acting completely out of character. The goodies already think Edgar’s a right Royal douchbag and as she had an in, in she went…

He hadn’t intended to say anything, but there it was – the bitter pill – still in his mouth, after swallowing so hard for so long.

Oh boy I know that well, my very EX best friend can’t even say to herself what she did to me, she also told her mother, MY 2nd mother, lies and she believed me to have done god only knows what, and she cut off contact while yelling at me, thst really hurt, I asked this girl, if she ever told her mother the truth and she said no, that was a double gut kick. She doesn’t deserve forgiveness.

‘Please, what you went through was terrible, but you have to believe I would do anything to turn back the clock,’ Jean-Paul said. Callanach wanted to believe him, but it was easy for such declarations to be made on the telephone from so far away. And it was too little, too late.

Ditto

He felt a rift within himself and wondered how it could be possible to feel such fury and such longing at the same time.

I know With someone else too, my Mummy Dearest

Had one sister, but there’s nothing here about what happened to her.

Now my webs shuffling around, a sister you say? Wouldn’t be some funny, friendly neighbor…..

but the webmaster will check out the attempted entry anyway and then we wait for an invitation. No shortcuts, I’m afraid.’

Ahh the good old days, DOS attacks, just for the hell of it, bots, entry into the ‘naughty channels, D & UL anything we could, makes me roll my eyes now at some of the rubbish we did. But it was simpler then, way before the s/road, I’m talking about 1999 etc where everyone watched to see if I’d crash, being in NZ and us being the first to become the new century, I was waiting for someone to give me a quick DOS as a joke, but they behaved.

Callanach

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So so so so so so so so many times….

who looked as if she wouldn’t be capable of putting up much of a fight at all.

Looks and what we portray to the world can be very deceiving. No one would guess at what I hide away, and I like it that they can’t. Loose lips snd all of that razzmatazz.

The set-up had been simple.

Only highlighting this as the next bit tells who, why what etc, and I have to say I don’t like it, at all. Maybe as I read I’ll get more appreciative of it, but as of now, I do NOT like it at all. Not often I’m ^ that cut snd dry with books, but, oh well, the first part was good

Natasha would understand.

Double unhappy This us silly, I like my versions better, snd not because they’re mine, they make sense, this doesn’t. My little red fishies & spidey web are all out on strike, of course their strike involves lots of vodka & Red Bull shots with bourbon & beer chasers, pizza snd Chinese, we get both, they were coming to blows trying to choose. Appease the hungry masses, isn’t that how it goes?

‘I’m a bit

LMMFAO Sorry for the swearing ^ But that tickled my funny bone, I was born 1/2 deaf and I’d always say things exactly like she did, although I’m now fully deaf so the points, moot, pun very fully intended!

was cameras that hung you. No evidence was quite as damning as the police finding crime scene photos on your mobile or hard drive.

Well, buy a disposable camera, or a real one, whatever, take the photos then leave it sitting on top of the corpse. God I’m awful at times! But it’d be a good way..

Her first true orgasm.

I wonder how many of us remember that?….

large supermarkets late at night, always with his hood up.

What store would let someone wear a hoodie up? None, that’s where.

Grom thought he would enjoy meeting her in person very much indeed. In the dark. Just the two of them.

Now that, THAT I like !