Love Bytes

Silicon Valley #2

by Sally Chapman

Sally Chapman's mysteries enliven the sometimes arcane world of computers with a dose of murder, romance, and good humor. In Love Bytes, the budding technology of "virtual reality" provides the key to a killer's motive.
Julie Blake has resigned her position at ICI, a major Silicon Valley company, to found an investigative agency specializing in computer fraud. With her partner/amore Vic Paoli, Julie looks forward to the freedom from corporate politics and to the challenge of sleuthing. But jobs are few, money is tight, and when bail bondswoman Lorna Donatello walks in with a missing-person case, Julie and Vic jump at the chance to take it on.
Tracing Arnie Lufkin is difficult, for the renegade programming genius and accused embezzler has concealed his tracks with a variety of tricks that baffle even Julie's expertise. When a murder is committed, the search intensifies for a criminal who is never what or where he seems to be.
Mystery readers and computer buffs alike will enjoy Love Bytes, a delightful sequel to Raw Data, the first book to feature Julie Blake and Vic Paoli.

Genres: Mystery

226 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Nancy H · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good mystery set at the beginning of the development of Virtual Reality programming.

[Leslie aka StoreyBook Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the 2nd in a series about Juliet Blake, a computer programmer in Silicon Valley. She and her boyfriend have just started a computer company and are hired to find a VR progammer that has jumped bail. Along the way they find several dead bodies and solve the question of "whodoneit"

I liked this book better than the first one. The first one was good but this one was better. The characters seemed more developed and the storyline flowed well.

[Pat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good. Virtual reality, computer crime.
Good character, Julie Blake.

[Susan R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read!