For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, a punishment for being too sharp has landed her on the Gnome Squad, investigating the absurd serial theft of garden ornaments. But a call from the university's gleaming Advanced Computing Laboratory pulls her from bureaucratic exile into a world of chillingly clean logic and a death that is anything but simple.
Professor Ken Takeda, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, is dead. The scene is a textbook suicide, too perfect to be true. The only clue is a cryptic message left glowing on his monitor in binary code, a single line of eerie, elegant
This is the second story I read from this author. What I love best is how she describes things so beautifully. She makes you really think and feel for the characters as well as the atmosphere of the story. This is done in a way that is both subtle and grand at the same time. Can't wait to read from her.