November 1, 2024
Bestselling Graham gets a 75K-copy first printing for this new thriller featuring FBI agents Jude Mackenzie and Victoria Tennant. Their case features a would-be-murderous smart house and personal AI. However, as Victoria notes, machines can only do what someone programs them to do. Prepub Alert.
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February 7, 2025
Veteran author Graham (A Murderer Among Us, 2024) takes on a very modern topic in this police-procedural thriller. The story begins when a law firm receptionist in St. Augustine, Florida, is killed after the artificial intelligence controlling the smart devices in her home goes haywire. Pair that with two suspicious vehicular crashes, and law enforcement wonders: is it a simple computer glitch or a targeted hack? Hyper-competent FBI agents Jude and Vicky are called in to find out. Both are young, attractive, and at the top of their game, and sparks inevitably fly between them. Some of the deductive leaps seem a little far-fetched, but the two are thorough, investigating the law firm and journeying into the territory of criminals and, with the help of some computer coding experts, the dark web. Despite the contemporary premise, some interesting Floridian history is also covered. The writing is a little clunky, but readers who like a breakneck-paced plot above all else will find it to be an enjoyable ride.
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