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A review by book_concierge
Delete All Suspects by Donna Andrews
2.0
2.5**
Turing Hopper is an AIP – Artificial Intelligence Personality. She and her human friends operate Allen Grace, a firm that mixes private investigation and computer consulting. A young man who has a home office providing web-hosting services is seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident, and his grandmother hires the Allen Grace crew to make sure his business is operating while he recovers. But, they quickly uncover some rather unsavory, unethical and downright illegal activity.
This is book four in the series, but I didn’t feel I was missing anything. There’s obviously a recurring “villain” (think Professor Moriarity) who remains unseen – at least in this segment. I thought this was a pretty interesting and fresh premise. I believed in Turing as a “personality” all her own, rather than just a series of codes. However, the plot is pretty awkward and I guessed the perpetrators much more quickly than either the humans (including police and FBI) or the AIP. The final solution is totally unrealistic, and I’m left dissatisfied.
Turing Hopper is an AIP – Artificial Intelligence Personality. She and her human friends operate Allen Grace, a firm that mixes private investigation and computer consulting. A young man who has a home office providing web-hosting services is seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident, and his grandmother hires the Allen Grace crew to make sure his business is operating while he recovers. But, they quickly uncover some rather unsavory, unethical and downright illegal activity.
This is book four in the series, but I didn’t feel I was missing anything. There’s obviously a recurring “villain” (think Professor Moriarity) who remains unseen – at least in this segment. I thought this was a pretty interesting and fresh premise. I believed in Turing as a “personality” all her own, rather than just a series of codes. However, the plot is pretty awkward and I guessed the perpetrators much more quickly than either the humans (including police and FBI) or the AIP. The final solution is totally unrealistic, and I’m left dissatisfied.