Mystery Writer Joe Ide Discusses His Latest Novel
HI FIVE is the fourth Joe Ide novel featuring black amateur sleuth, Isaiah Quintabe, nicknamed IQ. In the novel, IQ is coerced into taking the case of an arms dealer to solve the murder of his lieutenant. He was murdered in the clothing boutique of the arms dealer’s daughter, Cristiana, making her the prime suspect. What the arms dealer didn’t tell IQ is that Cristiana suffers from a multiple personalities disorder, and no one personality saw the entire incident.
Set in Southern California, the characters in Joe Ide’s IQ novels are a menagerie of blacks seeking the American dream with some…
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