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Berkley Dee 2004, 23.95, 256 pp. ISBN 0425198383 Artificial Intelligence Personality (AIP) Turing Hopper has gained sentience and with the help of her two friends is now in charge of Universal Libraries and Alan Grace Inc. All three sentient beings are on the lookout for Nestor Garcia because he knows about Turing and wants to steal her just like he did her clone T2. When someone uses his credit card to make online charges and have them deliver...
Click Here For Murder
Berkley, May 2003, 22.95, 304 pp. ISBN 0425188565 After finding the murderer of her creator, she took over The Universal Library business after it was decided to do away with AIP's (Artificial Intelligence Personality). Now nobody can argue the point that Turing Hopper is a sentient silicon based life form. She and her friend Maude own and run UL. They also manage the Alan Grace company where systems engineer Raymond Santiago is building a new...
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Lion
St. Martin's, Jan 2003, 23.95, 320 pp. ISBN 0312277318 A blacksmith cannot work with only one hand so when Rob Langslow asks his sister to take on the job as office manager, Meg can't think of a reason to refuse although she wishes she could. Being office manager at Mutant Wizards is a cross between being a den mother at a college dorm or perhaps an older sister to a pack of brilliant eccentric adult children. Rob thinks something is wrong at t...
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
Meg Langslow is now working with her brother Rob's company Mutant Wizards when the company's prankster Ted is murdered leaving Meg to figure out who done it. Now her role at the company is manning the switchboard and being the office manager whose handling the office pets and dealing with the off the wall programmers along with the therapist sharing the office space. She comes into work and Ted is pretending to be dead on his automated mail cart earlier ...

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Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos
Meg Langslow is back at her hometown of Yorktown, Virginia to celebrate the Battle of Yorktown crafts fair when she is caught up in the middle of a murder investigation. There is so much happening with the craft fair when friends and family make this simple event into a huge headache with it being a reenactment of the battle of Yorktown from the American Revolutionary War. Her boyfriend Michael and his mother Mrs. Waterston with Meg have become the cente...
We'll Always Have Parrots
Dunne, March 2004, 23.95, 304 pp. ISBN: 0312277326 Blacksmith Meg Langslow accompanies her fiancé, drama professor and actor, Michael to the Friends of Amblyiopia convention though neither wants to attend. Michael has a minor part in the cult hit TV series Porfiria, Queen of the Jungle that requires him to grace several of these events as insisted upon by the executive producer Tamerlaine Wynncliffe-Jones, who also stars in the title role. Mich...
You've Got Murder
Berkley, April 2002, 1.95, 304 pp. ISBN 0425 1819176 Universal Library is a corporation that controls, owns or fixes databases for its various clients. It also has a website where, for a fee, users can talk to or do research with an AIP (Artificial intelligence Personality). Their most popular AIP is Turing Hopper whose specialty is general knowledge. Users like her because she's got a distinct and refreshing personality but what they don'...