In The Blink of An Eye: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds.
Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye.

DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic. But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal.

AI versus human experience.
Logic versus instinct.
With lives on the line can the pair work together before someone else becomes another statistic

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.

I started reading this morning and ten hours later Ive finished it! Its so, SO good really properly compelling, impossible to put down I was desperate for the solution to the mystery but so human and moving and massively thought-provoking on what makes us human Laura Marshall

Completely different and utterly brilliant Amanda Reynolds

SO good. A really clever twist on the police procedural that asks big questions about instinct, bias, and what it means to be human while also delivering a cracker of a plot. Loved it Phoebe Locke

Its phenomenal . . .Perfect blend of police procedural and techno thriller and kept me guessing right to the end! StephBroadribb

'It's so much more than a dystopian police procedural and asks questions about who we are and what it means to be human. Brilliant' Nikki Smith

'Thrilling, thought-provoking andcinematic a slam dunk for movie/TV adaptation'Alexandra Sokoloff, author of the Huntress Moon thrillers

Fabulous! A rare crime novel truly as much about character as it is about plotcried at the endinghuge potential series exploring the human AI connection. Loved'Lindsay Galvin

'I tore through this one in a day. One of the best new crime partnerships to emerge in fiction'Simon Bewick, Bay Tales Festival, Virtual Noir at the Bar

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I started reading this morning and ten hours later Ive finished it! Its so, SO good really properly compelling, impossible to put down I was desperate for the solution to the mystery but so human and moving and massively thought-provoking on what makes us human -- Laura Marshall
Completely different and utterly brilliant -- Amanda Reynolds, author of Close to Me, now a major six part C4 drama series
SO good. A really clever twist on the police procedural that asks big questions about instinct, bias, and what it means to be human while also delivering a cracker of a plot. Loved it -- Phoebe Locke, author of The Tall Man and The July Girls
Its phenomenal . . .Perfect blend of police procedural and techno thriller and kept me guessing right to the end! -- Steph Broadribb, author of The Retired Detective Series
'It's so much more than a dystopian police procedural and asks questions about who we are and what it means to be human. Brilliant' -- Nikki Smith
'Thrilling, thought-provoking andcinematic a slam dunk for movie/TV adaptation' -- Alexandra Sokoloff, author of the Huntress Moon thrillers
Fabulous! A rare crime novel truly as much about character as it is about plotcried at the endinghuge potential series exploring the human AI connection. Loved' -- Lindsay Galvin
'I tore through this one in a day. One of the best new crime partnerships to emerge in fiction' -- Simon Bewick, Bay Tales Festival, Virtual Noir at the Bar
'An absolute cracker of a thriller. Such an original concept and so brilliantly executed, but also a story to make you think, and one that throws up unexpected questions about life, grief, loss, and the human mind . . . If you love a police procedural, you'll adore this. If you like a book to make you think a little more deeply, you will also love this. As someone who is a fan of both, I can't recommend it enough' -- Joanna Cannon
'One of the most original and modern police procedurals youll read . . . The results are astounding' -- Belfast Telegraph