Created by David Burton
Divorced, ex-cop TOMMY CASE was raking it in as a Newport Beach P.I., and after scoring big on a recovery job, he decides to call it a day and retire, do some sailing, etc.
He actually lives on his sailboat, the NOMORR (stands for No More Rat Race) and that suits him just fine. He’s a low-key kind of guy, favors Hawaiian shirts and shorts, does okay with the ladies, likes to party. It’s not a bad life he envisions. Smooth sailing.
And then his former secretary, whom he had to lay off, asks him to look into the still unsolved murder of her research developer boyfriend, Brian Childs. He’d been working on a process that connects human DNA to a prototype robot. It’s been seven months since he was killed, and she wants answers. The cops are doing squat.
Reluctantly, Case agrees, but soon finds himself mixed up in all sorts of high-tech shenanigans, like artificial intelligence (AI for you youngsters), remote-control boats and robots who cry tears of oil, not to mention good old-fashioned, hands-on murder.
The hardcover edition of Tommy’s debut, 1997’s Manmade for Murder, inexplicably became something of a collectible for a while, selling for up to eighty dollars. I guess someone liked it.
More perplexing, maybe, is why the paperback edition available on Amazon lists the author as “Sabrina Burton,” while also stating that “David Burton is a cabinet maker and former boat builder and sailor. He now lives in Ft. Collins, Colorado, with his wife Delores. Manmade for Murder is his first novel.”
Too much AI?
NOVELS
- Manmade for Murder (1997) | Buy this book
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Eye’s the Bye
P.I.s Who Live Afloat…
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
