Today I’m joining the publication day blog tour for Body Of Lies. My review is written with thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

The brand-new thriller featuring DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock, from the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye.

Human suspicion. AI manipulation.
When truth can be rewritten, who can you trust?

DCS Kat Frank is back at the Future Policing Unit after a devastating loss – and straight into her most disturbing case yet.

On Halloween night, a local MP is found murdered. Beside the body is a taunting message in binary code, aimed directly at Kat:

Catch me if you can.

The victim was a vocal opponent of AI. The motive looks political. But as Kat investigates with her partner, AIDE Lock – the world’s first AI detective – the case spirals into something far more dangerous.

Then a cyberattack takes down the National Grid.

With the country in chaos and lives on the line, Kat and Lock must track a killer who is always one step ahead. But in a world of deepfakes, deception and digital ghosts, instinct is no longer enough.

Kat must decide whether to trust the one thing she still fears most: her AI partner.

Because this time, Lock may not just be solving the case.

He may be changing what it means to be human.

Can Kat stop a killer before the lights go out for good?

Review:

After THAT ending to Human Remains, I was so excited to see both what would happen next and how this series would end. Body Of Lies absolutely did not disappoint and I was swiping my Kindle so fast as I was so engaged in the story. 

I have loved spending time with DCS Kat Frank and Lock and their team across the series. They all have different personalities and bring different skills to the team, but I love their chemistry and the way they work together. I’ve also enjoyed getting to know more about their families and personal lives over the series and it’s been great to see Cam grow from a teenager into an adult and see Debbie thrive as a single parent. Jo Callaghan writes with such sensitivity and this really helped me to connect emotionally with all the characters. 

I really enjoyed the political element to Body Of Lies. It made the novel feel very current, and this helped me to become more engaged in the story. I really wanted to know what the outcome would be. The chapters in the novel are interspersed with extracts from social media which increases this effect. 

As the novel progresses, the tension increases tenfold and I read the second half of Body Of Lies on the edge of my seat. There was so much jeopardy in each page and I couldn’t wait to see how the story would develop. There were occasions when I audibly gasped as I was reading! 

I feel that Jo Callaghan wrapped both this novel and the series well. I am sad that this will be the final book in the series but I can’t wait to see what the author does next! 

Body Of Lies is available from Amazon.

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