Blog Tour Stop - Perfect Silence by Helen Fields

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Perfect Silence by Helen Fields! I'm thrilled to have an exclusive extract below, just for you!

What They Say:

When silence falls, who will hear their cries?

The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the silhouette of a doll carved in the victim’s skin.

DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are struggling to find leads in the case, until a doll made of skin is found nestled beside an abandoned baby.

After another young woman is found butchered, Luc and Ava realise the babydoll killer is playing a horrifying game. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes again. Can they stop another victim from being silenced forever – or is it already too late?

Exclusive Extract From Perfect Silence

‘Stop,’ Salter said. ‘You’ll call me Salter, just like you always did. And we don’t talk about what happened. If I wanted to do that I’d have stayed at home with my family popping round twice a day to check on me. This is work. I need it. So don’t patronise me and don’t try to wrap me up. It’s too late for that.’

The phone rang, sparing Lively a response. He picked up a pen and began scribbling details on a notepad, muttering a stream of affi rmatives as he wrote.

‘Give us ten minutes,’ he said, before putting the receiver down.

‘Get your coat then, Salter. We’re off into town.’

Crichton’s Close provided pedestrian access onto the Royal Mile and was a regular night stop for the homeless, courtesy of high walls at either side stopping the wind, and providing some shelter from the rain. As a no through route for traffic, it had the added bonus of excluding passing police vehicles. Only the drunks or unwitting tourists passed that way in the small hours. Unless you were looking for trouble. Lively and Salter took the car up Gentle’s Entry and parked it in Bakehouse

Close, walking the few metres round the corner to where uniformed police officers and paramedics were doing their best to persuade a man to get medical help.

‘Who is he?’ Lively asked an officer as they approached.

‘Name’s Mikey Parsons. Long-term homeless, known drug user. We see him fairly regularly on the beat. Never had any trouble with him except for public pissing, and then he moves on without getting nasty.

Big thanks to Sabah at Avon for sending me copy of this book in exchange for my honest review, which will follow as soon as I've read this beauty!