Joe Ide. Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-26772-4
Ide successfully makes his detective’s brilliance plausible in this gripping and moving debut, which makes effective use of flashbacks. Isaiah Quintabe, whose reasoning scores on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test are near genius levels, has his...
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Joe Ide. Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-26777-9
Two cases with powerful personal aspects challenge Isaiah “IQ” Quintabe, known in his Long Beach, Calif., community for his crime-solving abilities, in Edgar-finalist Ide’s outstanding sequel to 2016’s IQ. The most painful open wound in Isaiah’s...
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Joe Ide. Mulholland, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-50951-0
Ide’s less than successful third mystery featuring Isaiah Quintabe (after 2017’s Righteous) focuses on action rather than deduction. Isaiah, the brilliant African-American PI known as IQ, helps his neighbors in Long Beach, Calif., with mostly...
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Joe Ide. Mulholland, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-50953-4
In Edgar-finalist Ide’s stellar fourth IQ novel (after 2018’s Wrecked), genius detective Isaiah Quintabe, who usually helps those in need in his impoverished East Long Beach, Calif., neighborhood, takes on a paying client. Angus Byrne, a vicious...
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Joe Ide. Mulholland, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-53106-1
Edgar finalist Ide’s lackluster fifth novel featuring Isaiah “IQ” Quintabe (after 2020’s Hi Five) finds Isaiah driving north from his home in Long Beach, Calif., where he’s had enough of dealing with violent crime. He stops in Coronado Springs, a...
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Joe Ide. Mulholland, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-45927-3
In this uneven detective novel, Thriller Award finalist Ide (the IQ series) reimagines Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled sleuth, Philip Marlowe, as a contemporary PI. When the rebellious Marlowe doesn’t last long on the police force, his father, a...
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Joe Ide. Mulholland, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-53108-5
Ide’s sixth crime thriller featuring genius Isaiah “IQ” Quintabe (after 2021’s Smoke) disappoints in its shift from deduction to full-tilt action. IQ, an “underground PI” who helps those in need “find justice when the police wouldn’t or couldn’t,”...
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