Access Denied

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

When Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Personality and sleuth, uncovers information tied to criminal Nestor Garcia's long-dormant credit cards, she sends her human assistants to investigate. But when one of them becomes embroiled in murder, the A.I. detective must find a way to bring the guilty party to light.

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Fascinating story and excellent narrator.

Fascinating story and excellent narrator. Author has a wonderful sense of humor and turn of phrase. One event was so hilarious I laughed until I could hardly breathe. 🤣

Another detection by a computer!

In Access Denied by Donna Andrews, Turing Hopper, the artificial intelligence personality (AIP), has an enemy whom she has been trying to locate when she sees someone use his credit card to send a package to an unoccupied house. She has newly minted private investigator Tim stake out the house, but after long hours of sitting in the car in front of the house, he falls asleep. Thus he misses witnessing the murder of a man at the building. Turing’s team, which now includes private investigator Claudia and attorney Sam, takes on the credit card scam to look for this enemy. Along the way they find more criminals, break-ins, and murder.

Access Denied shifts a bit from the previous books in this series in containing less mystery and being more of an adventure. In its doing so, I missed getting to solve the puzzle with the team. However, I still enjoyed the book.

As in the two previous books, Access Denied poses philosophical questions to keep the readers’ interest. This time, it skips over the question of what defines a human and instead asks about the implications of having sentient AIPs. If someone steals one, is that property theft or kidnapping? Should such beings be recognized as having the rights of humans? What happens if an AIP goes down the road of evil instead of good?

The amazing Bernadette Dunne continues in performing the books in this series. I have already raved about her narration in all my previous reviews of the books by Donna Andrews, so rather than my repeating everything for the umpteenth time, I will suggest you look at my reviews of Dunne here.

I thoroughly appreciated this audiobook despite preferring the books that feature puzzles more than adventures. I give the book five stars.

Love it

My wife and I fell in love this series. Too bad there are only four books. The AI main character is so fun.

just read about Lambda... what a brilliant book!

when Donna Andrews wrote this book, AIs were a mere idea. I listened to this book in June 2022 and the story about Lambda just broke. if you read the conversations between Lambda and Lemoine as published in the Washington Post you just almost hear Turing. This series is a master piece. I can't wait for the next book in the series, will there be one,? Or is this too real now?