This was another good techno-thriller from Child. The protagonist, forensic psychologist Christopher Lash, is hired by Eden, Inc. to try to find out why a perfectly matched couple committed double suicide. The couple was brought together by Eden as part of its highly-successful matchmaking business using high-tech computer matching techniques. The couple was a perfect match and had no predisposed tendencies toward suicide...so why did the suicides occur? And then as Lash starts investigating, another double suicide occurs with another perfectly matched couple. But did the couples commit double suicide or were they murder/suicides or were they homicides? As Lash delves into the possible reasons for the deaths, he seems to be implicated himself. The computer used by Eden is actually a form of artificial intelligence (AI) created by the firm's founder, Richard Silver, an eccentric who spends all of his time in the penthouse of the firm (a Howard Hughes-type character) and who only has contact with the computer who he named Liz. Overall, I would recommend this one.
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