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

by Helen Sarah Fields

application to the webmaster whilst drinking coffee at Below Par

I’m sure he is, but I hope he’s masking his IP, as if he’s using her cafe one, his love interest may be put in the firing line…

‘Surgical grade scalpel.

Ding a ling Don’t break what aren’t fixed. BP handles under all their guises have stood the test of time. Although there’s lots of surgical tools that would freak people the hell out!

Several pairs surgical gloves (these become bloody and slippery quickly).

Not the new ones, blues & purples my personal favorites. You can just rinse them off under a tap/sink, while wearing them still, and they’re perfectly fine. Mind you, if your not worried about the ;ick factor’ you could just use bare hands.

dreadful poetry,

Yeah I thought so too, I’d of done much better, but then it’s an on again off again hobby of mine, some is crap, some is good, depending on your point of view i guess

Finally he looked up an off-the-record home address that Grom had requested.

Oooh I wonder what ‘fetish queen’ that may be….

or whatever it was he did in there for hours on end.

A little red one? I do try to stop them jumping out of the pool, but fish will be fishies

cursing the pigeons nesting in the trees along her driveway.

Oh boy do I hate pigeons, and when I say hate I mean HATE, we should eradicate them all from the planet.

Whatever it contained was so small it hardly seemed worth the effort of sending. Presumably that meant the product was over-priced as well as useless.

Blame Apple

Computer genius he might be, but he was also a jumped-up little sod.

Just my kinda guy

Strange how you can love the idea of something before it’s actually there for you to touch.’

Not really, I do that all the time, jeans on one website, shoes on another, plane trips to LA….mAll the time

for the right reasons just like Ben’s dad had. Promotion was irrelevant to a good cop, so occasionally the rules became irrelevant too. All that mattered was catching the bad guys and protecting the innocent.

Exactly, which is why when I hear cops thinking they won’t work with this or that person as they want credit? IRL It disgusts me!

The password was a random series of twenty-one numbers, capitalised and small letters.

That’s pretty much standard for buying a pretty pair of the fore mentioned shoes

‘Gallery seems the most obvious way to check we’re in the right place,’

Gallery also would be the immediate target of anyone wanting in, everybody loves photos, and these type of people, they’re addicts.

‘Because as soon as her abductor figures out how to score maximum points for killing her, we’ll be too late.’

And the authors humanized her so well that no readers will want her harmed.

But this was infinitely worse. It was the knowledge that someone had had to endure having a piece of themself cut off.

I used to work as support for theatre in one of our main hospitals dealing primarily with surgical equipment. Cleaning it was of course necessary and digging people parts out of a large amount of things was just normal. You get used to it very quickly. You’d think digging bone & cement out of what’s essentially a bone grater, which looks scarily similar to a cheese grater, except these are a 1/2 round shape. I didn’t mind that so much, a little flesh bone & gristle, and tendons and and and etc etc never hurt anyone, well, maybe the patient, but my pet hate was anal equipment, of which there’s a surprisingly large variety, I just didn’t like it, smell or no smell, just an ‘ick’ job.

‘We’ve got him,’ Callanach said.

Chickens, counting eggs? Oh no, not quite, chickens hatched! I guess it’s the same thing overall though

He’d had enough of that with her toilet habits. He still wasn’t sure if she really couldn’t make it to the bathroom to piss or if she was just torturing him by letting her bladder go whenever and wherever she felt like it.

You’ll find that’s common, we come to lose partial or all control of our bits & pieces as we age. I’d go into the geriatric wards at work and you could instantly smell it, it’s very common there as you have more bedridden patients which significantly ups the ante. We all lose it unfortunately.

‘You’re to stay in the car,’ Lively told Lance. ‘Stay down, stay still. No getting involved

Here’s what I’d do now, as far as writing it goes… I was thinking it’s the wrong person they were going after, but it could be the right person, he escapes, leaving his ‘prize’ behind, steals Callans car & Lance along with it!

He saved his draft until

See, by my way, if he’s taken, the baddie could use him to post things online as ge did them, sounds great to me, not the actual doing, but how

Their egos were what had made his chosen pair so easy to manipulate. Wanting to kill was a private matter for most, but there were a select few who needed to kill and craved admiration for it.

Because these, they’re REAL psychopaths

been patient for so long. Months of planning, the hours of work he’d put into bringing everyone together at the right time.

Who but who…? My pick is asshole #1 Edgar, but having said that, the doors wide open, as much as I wish/want it to be him, it’s probably just as unlikely because he’s an obvious baddie

If he rushed the shopping, he could get back to his beautiful

Forgot, dong dong (means I got booed on this guess)

who he was?’

Oooohh dear

‘Gotta speed this up, Lance. I have somewhere to be.’

Oh I have a sinking feeling …

Consequently, Ava had failed to join the dots between her mother’s own childhood and her resultant inability to forge the sort of close bond between them that Ava had craved.

I won’t highlight all the prior 1/2 page, this little snippet is enough. The author could of torn this from my life, I’m sadly not joking. Not sure what I can say as this cuts so close to the bone I’ve got tears in my eyes and I want to run to my Mum grab her, and force the loving physicality of a hug from her, something she’s never done, I want to hear her say the words “I love you” from her mouth, as she’s never been able to say it. Yet I like Ava will do nothing, I’ll wish and wonder until the day she dies and then, I don’t know, like Ava I have suspicions from her life and mine, that makes us who we are, but unlike Ava, I took a different route, one that allowed me to drown out all the noise. Now I just live in silence, which is bloody ironic as I recently became deaf. It wasn’t meant to be a pun, it just came out that way. Children love your mothers, like your mothers love you, because when you need open arms, they’ll be there waiting for you. Life just bloody sucks sometimes. :|

She drove to Joe’s short-term apartment rental to see him driving away

I’m wondering if the top bitch cop has a bored husband with free time on his hands to learn a few technological things, if you get my drift?…. And I can’t believe the stupidity that’s been on this character that I loved more than the main male lead of Callan, this books destroys my opinion of her and it’s a weird not good angle the authors plotted for her, now this? I mean wtf?

She had recognised Joe’s visitor in spite of the brevity of the sighting.

I know I know! Well it’s one of two picks… both female …. And neither one a loony psychopath

‘It’s data. It doesn’t lie,’ Callanach replied, hoping like hell he was right.

Data is only as good as the nitwit who enters it….

Sem Culpa.’

Sem Culpa

Sem Culpa

abduction.’

Can’t highlight the entire sentence, no spoilers, however, isn’t baiting frowned on?

Sem Culpa’s

Sem Culpa

It’s too too much

think the more relevant question is, what do you like about him so much?’

Mummy issues

Ben

Just going to bed with a headache and I got hit with a sledgehammer, the wording just came out that way, but I guess the pun fits… You can knock me down but I get back up … my guesstimates in this book while wildly wrong with witty & whimsical wonderings << try saying that << sober! But it’s ok I am, sober that is, even though this rubbish may wish to show me as not… . But I digress, this is about my guesses being way off, even though awesome ideas, they’re still off, and it’s made my little red ones very confused, not one out of the 9 or so billion of them can seem to get it right. My spidey webs also feeling traumatized by trying to get 9 billion or so little red fishies to not feel like they’ve failed. They want to grow up and be REAL BIG RED HERRINGS one day, so all in all it’s just been one of those days. I’d say tomorrow will be better, but let’s not go tempting the Fates, I swear they have it in for us somedays. /EGO checking out. Whoopsy I forgot, well nearly, here’s my next wrong guess… So here goes nothing, the entire idea is a way to kill his wife and never be even close to a suspect?? Huh! It’s a good one, right? We’ll see, and until then…

‘I know all this. You do remember it was me who got the first solid information on The Unsung?

Oh Polly Polly Polly …

so I’m guessing she’s pretty safe in there,’ Rivers said.

Overstatement of the year, I’m guessing she’s not

but I appreciate the effort,’

Why get people to help only to discount them…

He was shaking, gulping.

What an actor, or a little red fishie…

I’ll bet she did it

Oh really…

Ava felt tiny and childlike, clumsy in her seat, wanting to fidget, unable to concentrate.

Isn’t that the way we feel in regard to our parents, forever the child, in every way

‘I’m here, Mum,’ she said. ‘Can you hear me?’

How I wish I could of had this with my Dad, by the time anyone bothered to tell me, let alone get me, he was comatose, I didn’t even get to have eye contact, for all intents and purposes he was gone already. Anyone who reads this, if your life’s that bad that your reading my rubbish.. Don’t let your final moments with anyone you love be without meaning, get there in time to say & do everything you always promised yourself you would when the moments came, you can’t get that back and replay it, all you’d be left with would be regret.

Life goes on.’

I’ve not even finished my coffee! No crying! I’m built with stronger stuff too, made in part by my Mummy Dearests image.

For now, there were more pressing matters for him to attend to.

So, he’s just your garden variety prick then.

love was the most brutal and destructive of emotions,

I dunno regret & blaming yourself are pretty well up there too, feeling you should of done something but didn’t and it had dire consequences is pretty soul shattering as well.

‘But I think we’re stuck with Overbeck.’

Well, that’s in the authors hands isn’t it

vote.’

Ding a ling ding ding Ding

didn’t stand out.

Ding a ling ding Ding And if like me you figured that out pretty much right away? Congrats! I guess her hubby had too much spare time

now to see if her husband can think of anyone who might have a reason to want her dead.

He really is made to look as incapable at times, for a supposed top cop it’s ludicrous and a bit annoying, ok a LOT annoying! Because any real cops would immediately look at a husband, not just go and…. I swear the side characters are much better than he is