Click Here for Murder / Donna Andrews. 4 stars

[LibraryCin]

Turing is an Artificial Intelligence Personality (AIP) and has been working hard to figure out how humans work. One of the guys at her company, Ray, has been murdered. Ray has only been with the company for 6 months. Turning helps her (and Ray’s) human friends, Tim and Maude, try to figure out what happened after the police assume Ray was involved in drugs and his murder had something to do with that. Turing and friends don’t think this is the case, but they quickly learn that Ray isn’t really who he says he is. What else might Ray have been hiding? And why did Ray want Tim to play this online role-playing game – unfortunately, it kept Tim from meeting Ray the night Ray died.

I really liked this. I think the role playing game upped my interest a bit. I do see I’ve rated it higher than the first in the series (this is the 2nd). Although the game wasn’t everything I was interested in. Finding out who Ray really is, and why he was hiding his identity was also of interest. I just really enjoyed this one, and am glad I continued the series. (I’m sad to see many other ratings are not as high as mine.)

[annapi]

I liked this series a lot too. I wish she had written more.

[Booknblues]

This sounds like it might be interesting.

[Theresa]

Loved this. Alas, when I met the author at Bouchercon in 2001 and fangirled all over her about tbe Turing series, Donna said her publisher was pulling the plug on it, as it was not selling as well as her other series and they did not want her wasting time on it. Having bills to pay, she agreed. There are 3 only in the series.

[LibraryCin]

Yeah, I saw there was only about 4(?) books in the series, I think (maybe 5).

Too bad. I tried "Murder With Peacocks" but didn't like it, so I'm not continuing that series at all.

[LibraryCin]

OK, Turing Hopper series has 4.

The other one - Meg Langslow. Well, obviously people disagreed with me, as that series has a crazy 30.

Well, I'm not reading any more of that one. One I'm done Turing's series, unless she comes out with something else, I won't be reading more of hers.

[LibraryCin]

Looks like I rated "Murder with Peacocks" as ok. Either way, definitely didn't like it enough to continue.

[annapi]

There are 4 books in the series:
1. You've Got Murder (2002)
2. Click Here For Murder (2003)
3. Access Denied (2004)
4. Delete All Suspects (2005)

[annapi]

LibraryCin wrote: "Looks like I rated "Murder with Peacocks" as ok. Either way, definitely didn't like it enough to continue."

Cindy, the first two books in the Meg Langslow series (Murder with Peacocks and Murder with Puffins) were not as good as the later books. I persevered, and now this is one of my favorites. It's definitely not as "hilarious" as it's hyped up to be, but it has a droll humor that I really enjoy. The characters have become old friends. And the mystery is usually pretty good.