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

by Helen Sarah Fields

opened the door, doing his best to smile at the girl standing there with a half empty bottle and a joint.

I like her, I don’t want her to be a baddie, joint and all, hell I’ll take the beer too!

marriage might not have been long enough for him to get the full fifty per cent, but he’d still be extremely wealthy.

Oh but once it’s been seen, a prize that big, it’d be all but nothing, like me, I’m looking for an apartment and I found one I love, there are others, in the same building even, but this one I keep going back to & I know I’ll be gutted if I don’t get it, if not for insurance I’d of already taken it. Do you see? Once the eyes have registered it with the brain, it’s a lost effort to erase the need for it.

explode.

Well bugger, I knew it was too good to be true, it always is, short skirts & lipstick get a knockout every time.

find his wife.

What about the other poor lady? Not interesting anymore?

could you show me the last frame on the CCTV footage again? Right before the cameras were turned off,’

I bet he ran it on a loop, so if anyone’s watching it they just see boring images, over & over that look like it’s moving forward while it’s actually not.

A doctor had already signed the death certificate.

Won’t highlight the rest of this part, but the wording made it all seem like the same people being referred to, had to reread it a couple of times to understand it better.

The IT officer looked about fifteen.

You know why younger people are much more up with tech? It’s simple, it requires dedication, learning, more than you’d ever done at school, this is be at it all night and still do one more thing. I can remember doing my first website, I could of used apps, but I wanted to keep it old school so I hand wrote every line of code, I taught myself how to do it from scratch with no help but source working other websites, and I was damn proud of what I did. They may not be over the top like many are now, but they worked and I did it. That dedication? Comes when your younger, something to prove, not just to others but to yourself. God I did some of mine while drinking bourbon then slept only to do more! So younger is better in more ways than one…

oozing a watery yellow fluid

Yeah, ears are good like that, should see what comes out of the actual inner ear, it’s yellow too, with a very distinctive smell, not bad, not at all, just a funny smell. I could always pick out the dirty ent instruments without even seeing them, just smell alone!

In her palm she concealed a metal nail file

I’d suggest eyes or ears, neck maybe, somewhere it’s gonna really hurt as just into a fleshy part won’t faze him

She hung up.

Such a shame you can’t do a kick to the bullocks over the phone…

paula@brisket.pt. The

Now that’s just funny, brisket I mean, heh, and in the funny way my life converges within itself, never eaten or really known what brisket was, as it’s only just started to be a cut of meat eaten here, I was checking out recipes for it yesterday, go figure, the fates playing up again.

but aimed correctly into an

Ding ding ding

She tried to speak.

No no no no no no no Don’t make such wonderful characters then do this!

She shook her head as the world fell away, the only sound she could hear the swell and break of the waves of blood through her ears.

Hmmm … seems the author did a little research, take it from someone who has had a cerebral haematoma, you hear your blood and your heart like a whooshing in your ears. It’s a very distinctive sound, not like anything else, when you hear it you know something is wrong, and oh yeah, it’s bloody scary (excuse the pun)

one paramedic made a time of death announcement.

MEANIE! There’s 2 people maybe dying! Which one?!

‘It’s different with women, that’s just a bit of fun. It’s unnatural for men,’

What BS! Personally I think we’re all bisexual, for scientific reasons as well as other ones. Nothings stupider than when a man gets excited if it’s 2 girls then pulls the ‘ick’ factor if 2 men are involved. We’ve come so far and yet the same old issues hold us back.

Her mother’s funeral had come and gone, family and close friends only.

That’s a mistake he made, he should of gone, contacted her, something, I know because I did a similar thing, my boss/coworker, we were very good friends, mainly at work though, a couple of drinks a few times after shift, and she invited me to her wedding, that’s not what I didn’t do though, I went to her wedding snd reception. What I didn’t do was stupider, her husband died in an accident and obviously she was away from work, for around 6 months. I kept wondering if I should call her or not, but I kept wondering if it was my place to, did I have the right to infringe on her when she was going through this, so I didn’t. That was a mistake, THE mistake, I should of called her, awkward or not, I just should of said or done something, anything, sometimes we can overthink the little things and mess up the big ones.

Ava bit her lip, trying to stop the tears from falling, and failing.

See, little things, lots of them… What’s the saying? Fail to see the forest because of all the trees? Pretty apt.

The Onion Router’) used to get inside the darknet works by creating layer upon layer of diversions so that nothing can be traced back to the user.

The peeling can go both ways… I wouldn’t recommend ANYONE without the knowledge ho anywhere near DN as even if they think they’re capable of peeking around, maybe, but they better worry about whose peeking back.

Various governmental organisations are working hard to crack TOR and gain full access to the darknet,

Good luck For every soso tech from the fbi the DN would have 100 better. It’s the ‘cool’ thing a $$ maker to do with some who don’t care or don’t think about what May happen and the DN has billions of dollars running through it compared to what, $1 for the feds? Never gonna happen, and even if they shut it down, another would pop up simultaneously, in fact I’d bet it’s all set ready to go just in case. ;)