"I think I was murdered."
"No matter how many times Katrina stared at the words . . . they refused to change into something that made sense." She had already taken grieving to the next level by loading of all her deceased husband's emails, text messages, and memos into a chatbot app that used artificial intelligence to craft conversations between the two of them. In fact the company that Katrina represented as a corporate attorney had developed the program. But this? Her dearly beloved grandmother's death had pulled her back home for a funeral, but now that she was in North Haven, how could she leave? She had a murder to solve . . . didn't she?
Seb Wallace knew that Katrina Berg had not recognized him at first glance. He had changed quite a bit from the awkward, nerdy, teenager who had loved her grandmother from the bottom of his young heart. His success as a restaurateur had brought Seb back to North Haven where he now owned and operated an upscale establishment inside a tastefully renovated lighthouse. When Katrina approached him with a business proposition, Seb was more than happy to take that particular worry off her plate, but when she asked him to translate Japanese inside a text message from her "dead" husband, Seb realized that Katrina needed his help as a friend.
With its invigorating pace and ingenious plot twists, this romantic suspense never gave a hint that two writing voices had merged behind the scenes to craft this applause worthy story!
*I purchased a copy and was under no obligation to provide a positive review
BackCover Blurb:
Just
a year ago, Katrina Berg was at the pinnacle of her career. She was a
rising star in the AI chatbot start-up everyone was talking about,
married with an adoring husband, and had more money than she knew how to
spend. Then her world combusted. Her husband, Jason, was killed in a
fiery car crash. Her CEO was indicted, and, as the company's legal
counsel, Katrina faces tough questions as the Feds take over and lock
her out of her office. The final blow is the passing of her beloved
grandmother.
Her most prized possession is the beta prototype for
a new, ultra-sophisticated chatbot loaded onto her phone. The contents
of Jason's email, social media backups, pictures, and every bit of data
she could find were loaded into the bot, and Katrina has "talked" to him
every day for the past six months. She has been amazed at how well it
works. Even the syntax and words the bot uses sound like Jason.
Sometimes, she imagines he isn't really dead and is right there beside
her. She knows it's slowing her grief recovery, but she can't stop
pretending.
On a particularly bad day, she taps out: Tell me
something I don't know. The cursor blinks for several moments and seems
frozen before the reply flashes quickly onto the screen: I think I was
murdered.
Distraught, Katrina returns to her cozy
Norwegian-flavored hometown in the Northern California redwoods and
enlists the help of Seb Wallace, local restaurateur and longtime
acquaintance, to try to parse out the truth of what really happened.
They must navigate the complicated paths of grief, family dynamics, and
second chances, as well as the complex questions of how much control
technology has. And staying alive long enough to do that is far more
difficult than either of them dreamed.
Bestselling authors Coble and Acker deftly combine a high-concept plot with gripping intrigue and closed-door romance in I Think I Was Murdered. Don't miss it!
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