In the Blink of an Eye

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INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • Two detectives: one human, one AI. And a case that will test them both.

Detective Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her intuition, honed through years of on-the-beat police work. Picked to lead a pilot program that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, a hologram that is activated by a device on Kat’s wrist, Kat’s gut reactions about people and motives come up against Lock’s statistical calculations and data analysis that can be done in seconds.

But as the two missing persons cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help when the case begins to target Kat personally. AI versus human experience. Logic versus instinct. With lives on the line can the pair work together to solve the mystery in time?

In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human.Jo Callaghan works full time as a senior strategist, carrying out research into the future impact of AI and genomics on the workforce. She was a student of the Writers’ Academy Course at Penguin Random House, and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Writing Competition and Bath Novel Competition. After losing her husband to cancer in 2019 when she was just forty-nine, she started writing In the Blink of an Eye, her debut crime novel, which explores learning to live with loss and what it means to be human. She lives with her two children in the Midlands.US

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