Made to Kill by Adam Christopher - ★★★

[John]

Ray Electromatic is a private detective; he is also the last remaining robot in this alternate history 1965. President John Kennedy is still alive and Russia still plans for world domination. The detective agency's secretary and procurer of jobs is Ada, an AI computer. Although the agency began solely as a detective agency, Ada discovered that the firm would be more profitable if Ray was hired as an hit man. Shortly after the film actress Eva McLuckie enters the office door, Ray discovers that this is exactly the service that the seductively-beautiful Hollywood starlet is looking for. She wants him to find and kill the missing actor Charles David. As he begins his investigation, he encounters a number of film industy actors and film moguls at a local night club with one unusual characteristic in common; all are emit low levels of radiation as detected by Ray's internal Geiger counter.

This novel is as if the noir master and author Raymond Chandler wrote a novel in the style of one of the authors from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Adam Christopher blended well the characteristics of both genres. The post-WWII characters and setting were well developed. Although it started out slow, the plot moves quickly by mid-novel. If you are a fan of noir fiction or the Golden Age of Science Fiction, you will enjoy this novel.

[Cora]

I have this one sitting on my kindle waiting for the right time to read it.