UNTITLED KAT AND LOCK BOOK 3
By (Author) Jo Callaghan
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Simon & Schuster Ltd
14th May 2025
24th April 2025
United Kingdom
Hardback
384
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 27mm
DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in acutting-edge new thriller from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellingIn the Blink of an Eye.
The truth will always come out, but at what cost
Fresh from successfully closing their first live case, the Future Policing Unit are called in to investigate when a headless, handless body is found on a Warwickshire farm. But as they workto identify the victim and their killer, the discovery of a second body begins to spark fears that The Aston Strangler is back. And as the stakes risefor the team, so dothe tensions brewing within it.
When DCS Kat Frank is accused of putting the wrong man behind bars all those years ago, AIDELock - the world's first AI Detective - pursues the truth about what happened with relentless logic. But Kat is determined to keep the past buried, and when the Son of The Aston Strangler comes looking for revenge, Lock is torn between his evidence-based algorithms and the judgement of his partner, with explosive results.
When everything hangs in the balance, it will all come down to just how much anAI machine can learn, and what happens when they do . . .
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 (Penguin Random House) andwas 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, where she spends far too much time tweeting as @JoCallaghanKat and is currently working on further novels in the series.