THE MANDROID MURDERS by Robin Duncan

I'd better be careful what I say here, as Robin is a member, like me, of the Glasgow SF Writing Circle. Mandroid Murders has been published by a publisher in the US, and it's quite good fun to read.
   Essentially the world-building includes lots of androids in the future, and an experiment to populate them with human intelligence goes wrong when one of the guys takes control of his android and goes on a murder spree. There are several subplots involving the two protagonists, Moth (and feisty teenager) and Quirk (a jaded private eye), and the story springs to life when the two of them make sarky comments to each other.
   For my money, the world-building is good, the characters are good, but the plot suffers a little in that not a great deal of actual 'detecting' goes on, despite the protagonists' evident desire to do some.
   But all in all, it's a good read that bounces along, and I wouldn't dissuade anyone from buying it, particularly if they wanted to support a Glasgow writer.
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