DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in a cutting-edge new thriller from the author of the Sunday Times bestselling In 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 work to 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 rise for the team, so do the tensions brewing within it. When DCS Kat Frank is accused of putting the wrong man behind bars all those years ago, AIDE Lock - 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 an AI machine can learn, and what happens when they do . . .

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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) 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, where she spends far too much time tweeting as @JoCallaghanKat and is currently working on further novels in the series.

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Pre-order BODY OF LIES**, the brand-new thriller featuring DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Callaghan, coming Spring 2026.**

From the author of In the Blink of an Eye**, the *Sunday Times* bestseller, winner of the CWA ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. **

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in a cutting-edge new thriller.

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 work to 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 rise for the team, so do the tensions brewing within it.

When DCS Kat Frank is accused of putting the wrong man behind bars all those years ago, AIDE Lock - 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 she becomes the target of a shadowy figure 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 an AI can learn, and what happens when they do . . .

PRAISE FOR JO CALLAGHAN: 

'A new force to be reckoned with in crime' Daily Mail
'An outstanding talent' Jane Casey
'Callaghan writes with such intelligence; interspersing humour with moments of utter heartbreak' Nikki Smith
'An amazing writer' Frances Quinn

Zusammenfassung
Lock and Kat return in the gripping new suspense procedural from the Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye.