Hacked: A Tucker Mystery

by Ray Daniel

Aloysius Tucker vows vengeance when a hacker terrorizes his 10-year-old cousin online. But the situation goes sideways fast, threatening to take Tucker offline for good. #TuckerGate. Promising his cousin that he'll get an apology from an internet bully, Tucker finds himself in a flame war that goes nuclear after a hacker is murdered. Now, more hackers, the whole Twitterverse, and a relentless bounty hunter agree on one Tucker is the killer, and he must be stopped. With death threats filling his inbox, Tucker battles anonymous Chinese spies and his own self-destructive rage while chasing a murderer the online community has named the HackMaster. Can Tucker clear his name and build a case against the killer before the death threats come true? Praise for "Outstanding...[A] bloody but supremely readable outing." (Publishers Weekly starred review) "This outing, despite some nasty revelations about cyberbullying, is the most upbeat of the [Tucker Mysteries]." (Kirkus Reviews) "Lock down your social media accounts, put some tape across your webcam, and close your blinds before you settle in to read this, because Ray Daniel?like his wry, world-weary hacker protagonist, Aloysius Tucker is damn good at what he does. Hacked is more than just a thrilling story. It's also a timely takedown of internet outrage culture, and a harrowing exploration of the very consequences of online bullying." (Chris Holm Anthony, award-winning author of The Killing Kind)

362 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2019

About the author

Ray Daniel is the award-winning author of Boston-based crime fiction. His short stories “Give Me a Dollar” won a 2014 Derringer Award for short fiction and “Driving Miss Rachel” was chosen as a 2013 distinguished short story by Otto Penzler, editor of The Best American Mystery Stories 2013.

Hacked is his fourth novel.

For more information, visit him online at raydanielmystery.com and follow him on Twitter @raydanielmystry.

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the only one in the series I read. I had no trouble following backstory, a few questions, but nothing annoying. I have no idea how much annoying exposition it would be if I had read the rest of the series. Lots of swearing, but interesting, good pacing and pretty good twists and turns. Also very short chapters which I very much appreciated when one of the only times I have to read is during lunch.