Jo Callaghan Books In Order

Publication Order of Kat and Lock Books

Jo Callaghan is an accomplished published author.

Her first crime story debut and book published in the United Kingdom was In the Blink of An Eye. It is the first book in the Kat and Lock series of novels. It was named Waterstones Thriller of the Month. The author says that she has been blown away by the positive reaction so far from readers, bloggers, and booksellers.

She was also lucky that she was selected for Val McDermid’s New Blood Panel at Harrogate Crime Festival, and her book was reviewed and recommended on ‘Between the Covers’, the Book Club show on the BBC2. She was also excited to come out with the second book in the series, Leave No Trace.

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Jo loves reading books and she loves hearing from readers. She spends a lot of time on Twitter (also known as the platform X now), where she likes to talk about the various books and television shows that she loves as well as how writing is going or talking about random topics like food or the weather. She says that she is on Instagram but Twitter/X is where she hangs out if readers want to get updates about what she is up to or what she is writing.

She hopes that readers enjoy her books! She works on a full time basis as a senior strategist. There she has carried out research on the future impact of A.I. and genomics on the workforce. She unfortunately lost her husband to cancer in 2019 and after that started writing her first book, In the Blink of An Eye.

She continues to live in the Midlands with her two children. There she is constantly working on her next book.

In the Blink of An Eye is the first book in the Kat and Lock series by Jo Callaghan. The book was the winner of the 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year as well as the ILP John Creasey First Novel Award. If you love a good mystery or crime novel, check this one out!

In the United Kingdom, someone is reported to be missing every ninety seconds. In the course of moments, they are vanished and are completely gone in the blink of an eye.

When it comes to loss, DCS Kat Frank knows all about it. She is a single mother and a widow as well as a cop who tries to trust her instincts. When she is picked to lead a pilot program that has her paired with AIDE(which stands for Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, her instincts all of a sudden come up against Lock’s logic.

However, when the two cold cases of missing persons that they are reviewing start to become active, Lock is just about the only one who is going to be of any assistance to Kat when the case gets personal. It might sound counter-intuitive, but perhaps AI and human experience together and logic and instinct together can work some magic.

When there are lives on the line, will the pair be able to work together and get some results before another statistic is forged? An exciting new debut, this is a great story to read no matter where you are, so pick up a copy, follow along, and see what happens!

Leave No Trace is the second book in the Kat and Lock series by Jo Callaghan. This is a thriller that puts algorithms up against experience, puts logic up against instinct, and tells the story of one undetectable killer that is ultimately up against two amazing detectives.

When the body of a man is found crucified at the top of a hill in the British midlands, it’s up to two people to solve the case. AIDE Lock is the first AI detective in the world, and he’s going to be working with Detective Kat Frank.

The two of them are put into the spotlight as they receive their first case. But then when a second body is found, the cops put out a warning to males between thirty and forty years of age. They warn the guys of the region to try to avoid going to drink in pubs, to not leave alone if you have to go to the pub, and above all else do not leave a pub with a stranger.

With the national media and the local men all up in arms, Kat and Lock have to put together their instincts and their algorithms in order to catch a killer before they will be able to strike again. Can they do it, or are they outmatched this time? Read this book to find out!