Take The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year 2024 To The Beach
Still looking for that particular crime novel for your vacations? Pick the winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024, which was awarded to Jo Callaghan and her novel In The Blink of an Eye.
The winner has been chosen from the six-novel shortlist to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the most prestigiuos award in crime fiction, featuring excellence, originality and the very best in crime fiction from UK and Irish authors.
In The Blink of an Eye covers the UK issue of missing people, as 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?
No doubt this gripping novel will become your next read.
Last year the prize was handed to The Botanist by M. W. Craven.
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