The book
The Cold Aisle
A Novel of Money, Machines and Murder
January 2027. Eight suspects. One frozen body. Every clue is there. Can you solve THE COLD AISLE?
He promised the truth at eight. He was dead before dawn.
Julian Maddox built Linnet, an artificial-intelligence companion that forty million people talk to. On a night when snow off Lake Ontario has shut every road, he is found dead in a hall of his own data centre, a building full of his company’s computers. At eight that morning he was due to tell the public something he had kept from it.
The building runs itself and keeps a record of everything it does. The last version of his speech is in a satellite overhead, and only one key opens it.
Ines Calloway, a reporter, came to watch the data centre switched on. She stays to find out who killed him, and what he was about to say.
A murder mystery with maps, exhibits and photographs. Every clue is on the page before the answer is.