It’s not one of those completely out of left field resolutions that leaves you feeling cheated, more one that makes me want to read the book again to see if I could have ‘made’ the perpetrator any earlier. I'm not sure how I'd feel about working along side AI, but it certainly seems to take some of the strain out of the legwork, an example being Lock's ability to review hours of CCTV footage in just seconds. Enter AIDE Lock, an AI Detective whose logic and speed is the near perfect match for Kat's gut instinct. Professor Okonedo, determined to better the operation of the force, asserts that the AIDE is not only capable of collating and analysing vast amounts of data in a fraction of the time required by a human, but has been programmed to filter out the bias and prejudice that can taint investigations. Similarly—in film—a shot presents us with an idea, or a sequence of ideas, and the cut is a “blink” that separates and punctuates those ideas.

If you’re interested in learning more about film editing, check out our podcast interview with Oscar nominated District 9, Handmaid’s Tale and Deadpool Editor, Julian Clarke here. The humour and dialogue was fabulous and you really need to believe the hype – because it’s so fresh and original that I wasn’t able to put it down. Well for those of you who have been asking, yes, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is the first in a series, and book 2, LEAVE NO TRACE will be published on March 28th 2024. 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. I had seen this book mentioned all over social media so thought I would listen to the audiobook version.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. While this is more geared towards the editing concerns for larger productions with multi-month editing cycle, Murch has many insights into the basic practicalities of editing. A bad actor can often be spotted by the strange rhythmn of their blinking - it doesn't seem to be matching the emotional landscape of the story.

So it’s already refreshing to find a detective that is professional, good at their job and regarded as an asset by their boss, as DCS Kat Frank is here. In other words, as Murch describes it, they have no knowledge of what was beyond the frame you see on the screen.This allows for more of the kind of interactions that happen with the robots in the two predecessors mentioned than would have been the case if Lock had been a totally disembodied program. Initially, she’s really disparaging of AI and thinks that human intuition and gut feeling is something a robot can’t understand or learn. Kat is requested to work alongside a new trial 'Detective', an initiative being pushed very heavily by Government and something that cannot be refused. It has universal appeal and seduced our celebrity panel members who wouldn’t normally choose a crime book. I spend a lot of time on twitter talking about the books and TV shows that I love, how the writing is going or just chatting about random stuff like the weather, kids, and food.