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

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Although I solved the case very early, I still found myself engrossed in the story and blazing through it like Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I work in cybersecurity and the industry is all about leveraging automation to replace tedious human tasks. who knows maybe Mark Zuckerberg has a whole fleet of AI detectives scouring the internet for anti-metaverse individuals LOL. This story explores what it could be like for the police force to work with AI (artifical intelligence). She's grieving, she's a little lost, she has so many memories to deal with, but she's determined to get back to work.

A device is given to Kat to communicate with Lock and its fair to say that she has major issues with the whole prospect of the pilot. I met Jo at Capital Crime in London in September 2022 and was lucky enough to get a proof of her new book In The Blink of An Eye which has had some absolutely RAVE reviews and the word on the street is that this book is going to be HUGE. When two of their cold cases appear to be connected, it's down to Lock and Kat to try to solve the case and find the missing boys.All the hallmarks on traditional police procedurals are very much in play: trawling CCTV, social media, and devices, as well as good ole face-to-face interviews. After much discussion, the team take up two missing person cold cases, conscientious student Tyrone Walters and would be actor Will Robinson.

Her boss, Chief Constable McLeish has her head up a pilot project working alongside an Artificial Intelligence Detecting Entity (AIDE) named Lock, who appears as a hologram, very much a character and personality in his own right, the brainchild of Warwick University's Professor Okonedo, a woman with her own agenda.I was hooked from the first 10 pages, you are thrown into a wild ride that you can’t get off until you’ve finished the book. We already have Alexa/Siri/Miss Google, self-driving cars, the braziest cybersecurity solutions you could ever imagine etc. A fresh and intriguing detective double act – I fell hard for all-too-human Kat and her AI colleague Lock . Lock is used to demonstrate the shortfalls of humans in general such as the fact we often make judgements based on emotions and personal experiences rather than evidence.