I have to be in the right mood to read these hi-tech cosy mysteries, but the combination is irresistible: HAL 9000 meets Nero Wolfe! Turing is on top form as the AIP (artificial intelligence personality) private detective, and the story itself is well paced with a tricky ending. Turing and her human assistants, Maude and Tim, are drawn in to investigating the murder of a friend involved with 'live' RPGs, but the solution has personal implications for Turing.

Read as detective stories or for the characters, the Turing Hopper mysteries are enjoyable and satisfying. Maude and Tim are likeable PI novices with individual quirks and talents, and Turing continues to grow as a 'person'. Can't wait to read more! ( )

Turing Hopper isn't your average, run-of-the-mill, amateur detective.
She is an AIP (Artificial Intelligence Personality) created along with
several others to serve as an interface for users of the Universal
Library, an online database more complete than any other in the world.
Turing has in her memory banks every fiction book ever written (her
favorites being mysteries and detective stories) and she, along with at
least one other AIP at UL, has achieved sentience -- she is a complete
individual, capable of original thought and emotions, and in every way
her own "self," residing entirely within the mainframe at UL. When her
coworker Ray Santiago is found murdered in an alley, Turing needs her
human friends' help to find his killer -- it's hard to do legwork
without legs. But, the more they dig, the more they discover that none
of them really knew Ray at all. His entire life is a fabrication and
Turing isn't as ready to write his murder off as a random street crime
as the Washington D.C.P.D. seems to be. There is something sinister
about the whole thing, and it isn't long before Turing discovers that an
outside danger is about to creep into the lab -- and, perhaps, within
the very computer in which Turing resides.

This is the second "computer sleuth" book I've read in this series and I
must say, they are indeed distinctly different. The story is told
simultaneously from both Turing's and a third person perspective. The
typeface is enough to set them off from each other, but is really
unnecessary because Turing's "voice" is distinctly her own. An
interesting premise, I must say. One caution -- you have to read these
books in the proper order because they build on each other and this one
ends with a cliffhanger. ( )

Not your typical murder mystery. For those who like trying to figure out who's guilty this is not the book for you. It has little clues and when you have enough information to figure out the killer it is obvious.
Click Here for Murder doesn't have much action untill about three quarters of the way through. The begining can be boring, but it gets better.
I would suggest this book to people who are interested in technology and especially computers. For everyone else it' s not a very good book.
After a while I got tired of reading the sections from Turing's point of view. They were dull and excrutiatingly boring. The other characters were only mildly interesting, and didn't have great character development.
If you are looking for a great mystery book, this is not it. It starts slow and never picks up to full speed. You may need patience to get through this book. This book doesn't really grab you and pull you in, it's not much of a page turner.
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This is the second novel featuring Artificial Intelligence Personality Turing Hopper. Not quite as good as the first, but still quite interesting. Like Tim and Maude, I believe in Turing as a real "person". ( )

I thought this cozy mystery was a little on the strange side since the PI (so to speak) is an IA trapped inside a computer. I found it to be somewhat unbelievable and because of that I enjoyed it less. ( )