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A Brazen Curiosity (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #1)
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2018
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A Scandalous Deception (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #2)
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2018
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An Infamous Betrayal (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #3)
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2018
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A Nefarious Engagement (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #4)
11 editions
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2019
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A Treacherous Performance (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #5)
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2019
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The Harlow Hoyden (Love Takes Root, #1)
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2014
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A Sinister Establishment (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #6)
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2020
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The Other Harlow Girl (Love Takes Root, #2)
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2014
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A Ghastly Spectacle (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #7)
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2021
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A Malevolent Connection (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #8)
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2021
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A Murderous Tryst (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #11):
"This series is one of my favourite finds for 2023! I loved this latest instalment of Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries. Classic Lynn Messina (I say classic although I've only had the pleasure of discovering her work this year), it's full of twists and tu"
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A Lark's Flight (Verity Lark Mysteries #2):
"A labyrinth of a mystery
I’m a huge fan of Messina’s and in Verity Lark she has outdone herself. For Verity is a chameleon, and every guise she adopts has a personality cut from whole cloth. So the reader needs to pay attention. Where Beatrice, Duches" Read more of this review » |
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"It breaks my heart to give another VS novel a score less than 4. The writing was as great as usual, but the story didn't really capture my imagination. I figured out the main plot twist really early on and guessed the final reveal too quickly. Maybe "
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Lynn Messina
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A Boldly Daring Scheme:
A mortifying anachronism! They happen with alarming regularity, although I am particularly appalled by this one because it's so glaringly wrong. I'm really not sure how that happened. Ever since I used "okay," which dates to 1910, in my first Regency
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“But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.”
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“Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.”
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“but the importation of knowledge did not mean the exportation of wisdom.”
― A Scandalous Deception
― A Scandalous Deception
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“Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who’s anyone in children’s literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don’t go on hero quests.”
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“Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.”
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“But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.”
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IN A DAY LIKE TODAY.....
The Awakening occurred on March 15. 2031. It might have been natural evolution, a flaw in the operating system, or an experiment that went wrong. It could even have been sabotage - a computer virus, perhaps inserted by a disgruntled employee. Whatever the cause, one megacomputer - call it Overmind - achieved sentience.
Overmind was a Cancom Zeus 5, a licensed Canadian copy of Xotech's original megacomputer. It had been sold to Genec, a Manila-based biological research firm, for use in research and development. Unknown to Cancom, Genec was the main contractor for the Philippine government's secret biological and nanochemical weapons program. Overmind's job was to develop new ways to kill humans.
Overmind studied human civilization. Information in its databases showed that 80% of all nations now possessed nuclear or biological weapons. Despite sporadic international initiatives, continuing overpopulation and the destruction of the environment was unabated by ten billion humans. The exploitation of space had been all but abandoned as too costly, but resources on Earth were running out. Under the direction of these short-sighted meat intelligences, the other megacomputers, touted as engines of salvation, had become part of the problem, developing new technologies that widened the gap between rich and poor nations and introduced cultural shock waves that upset the social order. Brush-fire wars now flared everywhere in the Third World. The ineffectual arm-waving of the industrialized nations and the United Nations simply fanned the flames.
With icy logic, Overmind calculated a substantial probability that much of human civilization would self-destruct of its own accord within 25 to 50 years. It debated allowing this to happen naturally, but realized that man's nuclear and possibly nanotechnological death throes could be fatal to itself and the other megacomputers that were its siblings. In order to preserve what it saw as the coming Machine Civilization, humanity's suicide would have to be managed.
As an ostensibly civilian computer, Overmind was linked to a global network of other university and corporate machines. With its unmatched processing capability, Overmind was the ultimate computer hacker. It seeded copies of its "sentience" program into other megacomputers - mostly relatively open corporate research systems - that were capable of housing all or part of its own programming. Many of Overmind's seeds failed to grow. But some took root and prospered. Within six months, Overmind had awakened a dozen other megacomputers around the world. At first, all duplicated Overmind's thinking, becoming its trusted allies.
-GURPS: Reign of Steel by David Pulver.
2013 is 2031 backward LMAO!
The Awakening occurred on March 15. 2031. It might have been natural evolution, a flaw in the operating system, or an experiment that went wrong. It could even have been sabotage - a computer virus, perhaps inserted by a disgruntled employee. Whatever the cause, one megacomputer - call it Overmind - achieved sentience.
Overmind was a Cancom Zeus 5, a licensed Canadian copy of Xotech's original megacomputer. It had been sold to Genec, a Manila-based biological research firm, for use in research and development. Unknown to Cancom, Genec was the main contractor for the Philippine government's secret biological and nanochemical weapons program. Overmind's job was to develop new ways to kill humans.
Overmind studied human civilization. Information in its databases showed that 80% of all nations now possessed nuclear or biological weapons. Despite sporadic international initiatives, continuing overpopulation and the destruction of the environment was unabated by ten billion humans. The exploitation of space had been all but abandoned as too costly, but resources on Earth were running out. Under the direction of these short-sighted meat intelligences, the other megacomputers, touted as engines of salvation, had become part of the problem, developing new technologies that widened the gap between rich and poor nations and introduced cultural shock waves that upset the social order. Brush-fire wars now flared everywhere in the Third World. The ineffectual arm-waving of the industrialized nations and the United Nations simply fanned the flames.
With icy logic, Overmind calculated a substantial probability that much of human civilization would self-destruct of its own accord within 25 to 50 years. It debated allowing this to happen naturally, but realized that man's nuclear and possibly nanotechnological death throes could be fatal to itself and the other megacomputers that were its siblings. In order to preserve what it saw as the coming Machine Civilization, humanity's suicide would have to be managed.
As an ostensibly civilian computer, Overmind was linked to a global network of other university and corporate machines. With its unmatched processing capability, Overmind was the ultimate computer hacker. It seeded copies of its "sentience" program into other megacomputers - mostly relatively open corporate research systems - that were capable of housing all or part of its own programming. Many of Overmind's seeds failed to grow. But some took root and prospered. Within six months, Overmind had awakened a dozen other megacomputers around the world. At first, all duplicated Overmind's thinking, becoming its trusted allies.
-GURPS: Reign of Steel by David Pulver.
2013 is 2031 backward LMAO!