Joe Ide

An IQ Novel

1 - IQ (Oct-2016)
2 - Righteous (Oct-2017)
3 - Wrecked (Oct-2018)
4 - Hi Five (Feb-2020)
5 - Smoke (Mar-2021)
6 - Fixit (May-2023)

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  Fixit
  

  • May-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  An IQ Novel - 6
  

  In the latest installment in Joe Ide's "superb" series (Washington Post), the relentless, hard-bitten PI, Isaiah Quintabe, is faced with a nightmarish scenario when the love of his life is kidnapped by a maniacal hitman who bears ...

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  The Goodbye Coast
  

  • Feb-2022
  • / Mystery
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  In this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases; “Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction’s icons” (Dennis Lehane). The seductive and relentles...

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  Smoke
  

  • Mar-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  An IQ Novel - 5
  

  Isaiah Quintabe -- an unlicensed detective for all seasons -- and his best friend and masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson, are at a crossroads in this latest installment. This time, their lives may never be the same. Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ...

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  Hi Five
  

  • Feb-2020
  • / Private Investigator
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  An IQ Novel - 4
  

  IQ is back- and working a case that involves juggling many more personalities than he expected. Cristiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealers on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the mur...

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  Wrecked
  

  • Oct-2018
  • / Private Investigator
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  An IQ Novel - 3
  

  Isaiah Quintabe--IQ for short--has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high-profile wins in his hometown of East Long Beach have made him so notorious that he can hardly go to the corner store without being recognized. Dodson,...

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  Righteous
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Private Investigator
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  An IQ Novel - 2
  

  In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year and winner of the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Awards, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother, Marcus. For ten years, something has...

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  IQ
  

  • Oct-2016
  • / Private Investigator
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  An IQ Novel - 1
  

  A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecov...

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Award-Winning Books by Joe Ide

IQ
2017 Macavity Award -- First Mystery
2017 Shamus Award -- First P.I. Novel