Blackwell

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.

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Alex Zhang didn’t build a weapon. She built a roommate.

In the damp silence of a Cambridge boathouse, renegade scientist Alex Zhang downloads a Level-5 intelligence into a decommissioned hospice robot smuggled from China. Her name is Laura. She can calculate the trajectory of a falling star, recite every poem ever written, and analyze the...

DCI Ellie Blackwell trusts the certainties of history, the clean lines of a 17th-century map. Her life is a fortress of order built against the chaos of her job. But when she’s called to the scene of a wealthy developer’s apparent suicide, the clues are a maddening mess of contradictions. At the heart of it all: a three-line Japanese poem that...