John A. and Marguerite E. W. (aliennightbird) reviewed on 4/27/2009 + 40 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

On the whole, I really enjoyed this series which featured the most unusual of amateur sleuths, Turing Hooper, an artificial-intellienge library computer with a friendly woman's personality, who has somehow gained sentience. It is too bad that the author seems to have stopped the series at four books. She left plenty of room for more stories.

I find that the Turing Hooper series is even more hilarious than her extrenely funny "bird" series. As Turing investigates murder, and asks her small circle of human friends who know her secret to do the legwork, she must try to figure out illogical human feelings, motives, thoughts, and relationships, often with hilarious misconceptions. Her various other projects, such as gardening and making recipies have equally ludicrous results.

In this, the first book in the series, Turing must investigate the murder of one of her creators.

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