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Jo Callaghan



Jo Callaghan works fulltime as a senior strategist, where she has carried 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), was long listed for the Myslexia 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 writing the second novel in the series.   

 

Awards: Theakston (2024), CWA (2024)  see all

Genres: Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
April 2025

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Human Remains
 
Series
Kat and Lock
   1. In the Blink of an Eye (2023)
   2. Leave No Trace (2024)
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Novels
   Human Remains (2025)
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Awards
2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year : In the Blink of an Eye
2024 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger : In the Blink of an Eye

Award nominations
2024 CrimeFest: Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award (nominee) : In the Blink of an Eye


Jo Callaghan recommends
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One Bad Apple (2024)
Jo Jakeman
"I loved it! Throw a murder into the politics of the school gates and the parents WhatsApp groups and you have a witty, insightful and thoroughly entertaining murder mystery. Bravo Jo Jakeman!"
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Close to the Edge (2024)
(Detectives Martin & Stern, book 2)
Anna Britton
"An unputdownable British police procedural series."
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Clickbait (2024)
L C North
"Told through mixed media, Clickbait kept me turning the pages to find out what happened to missing teenager, Bradley Wilcox. Masterfully plotted and told with verve and humour, this clever and compelling story was made for TV. Bravo."

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