Today I’m joining the blog tour for Human Remains. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

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 machine can learn, and what happens when they do . . .

Review:

I’ve loved the Kat and Lock series from the very beginning and Human Remains is even better! It is so innovative and original, and I am fascinated by the benefits and limits of AI technology and how this applies to the police. Jo Callaghan has researched this in so much detail and I love the way that the different implications of it are explored through the plot in a brilliantly thought provoking way.

As a central character, DCS Kat French is wonderful. She’s a conscientious, intelligent detective who relies quite heavily on her instinct. In Human Remains, we learn more about her past and her back story is very intriguing. I loved exploring this in more depth.

Jo Callaghan is a phenomenal writer. The novel begins with a chapter from the perspective of an unknown person, and this creates an undertone of tension that runs through the whole story. I was absolutely hooked by the fast paced writing style, which also includes police interviews and podcast transcripts. I was so intrigued and I really wanted to know what was happening.

It’s going to take me a long time to get over that ending, but I look forward to seeing where Jo Callaghan will take Kat and Lock next.

Human Remains is available from Amazon.

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