**THE TIMES BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF 2020: 'Playful, fresh, full of life'WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST MYSTERIES OF 2020: 'Among the most inventive and smartly written books in the genre'**'Extraordinary verve' The Times'Crackles with life' New York Times'The Holmes of the 21st century' Daily Mail'One of the ho...

'The best discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael ConnellyWhen the beautiful woman you've longed for since boyhood calls and asks you to find her missing sister, what do you do? If you are Isaiah Quintabe - IQ to his friends - you'll do everything you can. The girl, an erratic DJ and gambling addict, has gone missing in Las Vegas - with a frightening loan shark, Chinese Triad gangsters, and her own deadbeat boyfriend hot on her tail. But IQ's search take...

'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time' NEW YORK TIMESIsaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by maniacal hitman Skip Hanson, who is determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison.With Grace's safety at stake, Isaiah reunites with his old partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, to track down Grace's whereabouts.Trouble comes in the shape of Winne Hando, a homicide detective with something to prove. Winnie sees ...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES PRODUCED BY SNOOP DOGG'The best new discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael Connelly'Writing so sharp you may cut your fingers on the pages' Attica Locke'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time' New York Times'The Holmes of the 21st century' Daily Mail'Conan Doyle's characterisation and Ray...

'Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandler... The wisecracking dialogue, outlandish characters and vicious slapstick make The Goodbye Coast a joy to read from the very first page'The Times'A terrific read - pacy, with tension, pathos, wonderful descriptions of LA and some lovely one-liners'Guardian...

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, once his sidekick, is now his full-fledged partner, hell-bent on giving IQ's PI business some real legitimacy: a Facebook page, and IQ's promise to stop accepting Christmas sweaters and carpet cleanings in exchange for PI services.So...

'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 ConnellySHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (new blood) DAGGERTHE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH: 'Full of humour, originality and high-quality writing'East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, the elderly ...

In this action-packed thriller, 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 unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch.They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his...

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother, Marcus.For ten years, something has gnawed at Isaiah Quintabe's gut and kept him up nights, boiling with anger and thoughts of revenge. Ten years ago, when Isaiah was just a boy, his brother was killed by an unknown assailant. The search for the killer sent Isaiah plunging into despair and n...

In this action-packed thriller, 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 unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch.They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his...

'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time' NEW YORK TIMESIsaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by maniacal hitman Skip Hanson, who is determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison.With Grace's safety at stake, Isaiah reunites with his old partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, to track down Grace's whereabouts.Trouble comes in the shape of Winne Hando, a homicide detective with something to prove. Winnie sees ...

'A Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit'IAN RANKIN'A total gobsmacking original'JAMES PATTERSON'A blast from start to finish'DENNIS LEHANELos Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police.Roaming the city streets is Philip Marlowe: a quiet, lonely, remarkably capable private detective, livi...