Audiobook Review: The Murder Machine by Heather Graham
The Murder Machine
Author: Heather Graham
Narrator: Tim Paige
Published: April 29, 2025
Audiobook: 7 hours 55 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: May 26-29, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 3 stars
Book Description:
Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent.
This state-of-the-art smart home has a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner’s lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn’t leave any fingerprints?
Enter Special Agent Victoria Tennant, whose familiarity with cybercrime reveals the stark a machine can only do what it’s been directed to. As the number of grisly “accidents” begins to rise, the pair must race to uncover the perpetrator even as they find themselves caught in their digital crosshairs! There’s nowhere to hide when danger may be as close as the very phones in their pockets.
Jessica’s Review:
The description of the book intrigued me; AI is becoming ‘normal’ whether we want it or not. (I’m in the ‘not wanting it’ group. Hello… Skynet is coming!) When I read the book description about a ‘smart home’ and the owner being murdered, I wanted to read it.
And I loved the beginning! I was pulled in from chapter one with the aftermath of the death of the home owner. But I didn’t connect with the two FBI agents and the fact that they fell for each other just didn’t work for me. The story line was reasonable for me, but I could have done without that.
The narrator did a good job with the novel.
The idea of AI becoming a ‘murder machine’ is an idea I am still wanting to read more of. Especially since out world is becoming so much more dependent on AI. I mean, who will know what is actually real or not real?
Thank you to the publisher for granting me a copy to listen to and review. I wish I could have enjoyed it more.