Click Here for Murder - Hardcover

Andrews, Donna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425188566 ISBN 13: 9780425188569

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2003

Synopsis

Ray Santiago's friends from work know him as a brilliant-but-easygoing systems engineer who spends a lot of time on his favorite online role-playing game. But the game is over for Ray: his colleagues from work, Maude, Tim, and Turing, have just found out about Ray's murder in a dark alley. He was shot, and his laptop stolen. It could be just another D.C. street crime. But if Turing's password was in that computer - and it's fallen into the wrong hands - she could be in terrible danger.
With Turing's Web-searching powers and Maude's and Tim's access to the outdoors, the trio starts looking into Ray's death, tracing their colleague's life from that fatal night, backspace by backspace. But this project leads to more questions than answers - because Ray seems to have fabricated his life story, even his name.
And now their quest is growing even more crucial. For as they sort their way through Ray Santiago's various personas, online and off, danger lurks in the lab - perhaps within the very computer in which Turing lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Donna Andrews introduced Turing Hopper in You've Got Murder. She also writes an award-winning birder's mystery series.

From Publishers Weekly:

In Andrews's second exciting computer-as-sleuth mystery (after 2002's You've Got Murder), "Artificial Intelligence Personality" Hopper Turing draws on all her cyber skills to help investigate the murder of a gifted computer programmer, Ray Santiago, found shot to death in a Washington, D.C., alley, his laptop stolen. Turing and human colleagues Maude Graham and Tim Pincoski at Universal Library outside D.C. discover that Ray cleverly constructed a false identity and was deeply involved in the role-playing game subculture. Dangerous criminals have been preying on those gamers who turn to live-action role playing. The narrative mimics real software with layers of security for access to different databases and with worms to deny access and destroy intruders. Explanations of a few technical terms will ease the way for readers with little computer background, but those who are computer literate will most appreciate the author's talent for blending information-age details with an enjoyable crime puzzle.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0425188566
• ISBN 13: 9780425188569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304