Auxiliary: London 2039, is a book I would normally never pick up. Heather Fitt from Overview Media, convinced me to give it a go, pretty glad I did!

Carl Dremmler is a police detective in a mainly robotic and quiet London, a London where people mainly stay indoors. They have high tech gadgets to help them communicate with everybody and anybody. Robots do all the legwork now, from delivering takeaways to even delivering the post. Now there is also TIM too, The Imagination Machine, akin to Alexa on steroids, does everything you need to do right down to planning peoples lives.

In this robotic world, Dremmler has to attend a murder case. The suspect’s defence is that it wasn’t him, it was his prosthetic, robotic arm that did it, and the victim just happened to be his girlfriend. Dremmler, as tech wary as he is, actually leans towards believing him. Dremmler’s boss wants him to wrap it up as quickly and quietly as is possible to stop any panic. The trouble begins when other deaths occur!

This book showed me a picture of what could very possibly be in 19 years. The futuristic story made me a little scared of the future. I can see the little things creeping in now that Jon has installed as a staple of life in the future with this book. Definitely a cyberpunk type of story on the darker side together with a murder thriller. I enjoyed Dremmler’s character, the jaded copper who cares neither one way or the other for all the technology and just wants to get a result!

Jon Richter has cleverly built a world within the novel that makes you so immersed you could be living in it, like you are watching a movie it’s that descriptive! A fast-paced, scary and chilling cyberpunk/murder thriller book I am happy I have been introduced too.

Thank you To Heather Fitt at Overview Media for asking me on Jon’s Blog Tour for Auxiliary: London 2039, and to Jon Richter for allowing me a copy.