IQ

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What to expect

East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, the elderly are being mugged, children go missing. But word has spread: if you've got a case the police can't - or won't - touch, Isaiah Quintabe will help you out.

They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. His clients pay him whatever they can afford, a new set of tyres or some homemade muffins. But now he needs a client who can pay. And the only way to that client is through a jive-talking, low-life drug dealer he thought he'd left behind. Then there's the case itself. A drug-addled rap star surrounded by a crew of flunkies who believes his life is in danger; and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. If he solves this case, IQ can put right a mistake he made long ago. If not it won't just be the hit man coming after him ...

Read by Sullivan Jones

(p) 2017 Hachette Audio

Critics Review

  • Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel

  • Joe Ide is the best new discovery I’ve come across in a long time. And Isaiah Quintabe is the kind of sleuth not seen on the mystery landscape before

    Michael Connelly
  • succeeds in being both highly original and continuing the spirit of Conan Doyle… it will be fascinating to see which details from his inspiration the writer adopts.

    THE GUARDIAN
  • CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH: full of humour, originality and high-quality writing.

    THE TIMES
  • This is one of the most remarkable debuts I’ve read…Deliciously quirky, written with exceptional panache and a fine ear for dialogue, it introduces the world to an LA private detective who might just become the Holmes of the 21st century

    Daily Mail
  • This debut novel offers an original twist on the idea of the Sherlockian super-sleuth.. This is terrific fun, a classic crime formula with a cool comtempory feel.

    SUNDAY EXPRESS

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