Manmade For Murder

Description for MANMADE FOR MURDER by David Burton:

PROGRAMMED FOR MURDER

DEX-4 is a technological marvel, a robot built from human DNA and computer chips: a machine with a brain. Its creator, Brian Childs, was about to become a very rich man. Instead he's a very dead one.

Former P.I. Tommy Case prefers sailing to detective work, but when Childs's fiancee, Tommy's ex-secretary, asks him for help, he reluctantly agrees. Then the case turns personal when his boat and the woman are blown up in an explosion meant for him.

Before long, Case has nailed the killer: DEX. But someone programmed the robot to destroy its creator. In a world where greed, passion and genius are the means to money and power, everyone has secrets. Some are worth killing for.

This is #1 in A Tommy Case Mystery.