Body of Lies: The crime thriller of 2026 from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye

· Simon and Schuster
Audiobook
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This book will become available on April 23, 2026. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this audiobook

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

PRAISE FOR JO CALLAGHAN: 

'Terrifyingly timely and provocative' VAL McDERMID
'The most original crime novel you'll read this year' CLARE MACKINTOSH 
'Just brilliant!' LISA JEWELL 
'Sharp, perceptive writing and a brilliant new take on the detective duo' T. M. LOGAN
'Everything you could hope for in a thriller: heartbreaking, intelligent, deftly plotted and so original' FIONA CUMMINS
'A fresh take on the buddy-buddy cop trope . . . Provocative and compelling' VASEEM KHAN
'Wildly original, heartfelt, funny, and properly thrilling. Take a bow, Jo Callaghan' CHRIS WHITAKER

About the author

Jo Callaghan works full time as a senior strategist, carrying out research into the future impact of AI and genomics on the workforce. She was a student of the Writers’ Academy Course (Penguin Random House) and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Writing Competition and Bath Novel Competition. After losing her husband to cancer in 2019 when she was just forty-nine, she started writing In the Blink of an Eye, her debut crime novel, which explores learning to live with loss and what it means to be human. She lives with her two children in the Midlands, where she spends far too much time tweeting as @JoCallaghanKat and is currently working on further novels in the series.

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