4.5 Stars from me
My new favourite thing to do while driving is to listen to audio books and that is how I enjoyed In the Blink of an Eye. And I truly did enjoy it, it was such a clever and captivating story – really brought to life by being an audio book so hats off to the narrators.
I was rapt with attention throughout and thoroughly invested in the story but especially the dynamic between DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock, or ‘it’ as she calls him. This was a novel take on the future of policing and didn’t feel too much of a stretch from reality. In fact, the data processing side of AIDE Lock was exceptional and would clearly be a huge asset for solving crime.
Kat and her team are tasked with solving cases, which soon become none too cold before pretty much turning red hot and there becomes a race against time to find the murderer and the missing boys – will Kat get there in time?
The story itself was great and I loved my long journeys listening to it – honestly the time flew by.
Blurb: 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?
In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human.
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