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''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

SHORTLISTED 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 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 ...

WINNER of the ANTHONY AWARD for Best Debut, the SHAMUS AWARD for BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL. the MACAVITY AWARD for Best First Novel; SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 EDGAR AWARD and STRAND CRITICS AWARD.

''The best discovery I''ve come across in a long time'' Michael Connelly

When 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 takes an unexpected turn when he meets a criminal mastermind who knows something about the murky circumstances surrounding his own brother''s death . . .

''Witty and confident, with a bustling plot, this is a worthy follow-up to Ide''s excellent debut'' 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 when a young painter approaches IQ for help tracking down her missing mother, it''s not just the case Isaiah''s looking for, but the human connection. And when his new confidant turns out to be connected to a dangerous paramilitary operation, IQ falls victim to a threat even a genius can''t see coming.Waiting for Isaiah around every corner is Seb, the Oxford-educated gangster who was responsible for the death of his brother, Marcus. Only, this time, Isaiah''s not alone. Joined by a new love interest and his familiar band of accomplices, IQ is back - and the adventures are better than ever.

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 hottest mystery novelists at work'' Washington Post''Writing so sharp you may cut your fingers on the pages'' Attica Locke''The best new discovery I''ve come across in a long time'' Michael Connelly

One witness. Five versions of the truth.Cristiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealers on the West Coast. She''s also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend.

Isaiah Quintabe is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence but there''s a catch: Christiana has multiple personalities - five of them, to be precise - and no one personality saw the entire incident.

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''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 Raymond Chandler''s phrase-making'' Guardian''An electrifying combination of Holmesian mystery and SoCal grit'' Time''Truly feels like an heir to Elmore Leonard'' Daily Telegraph ''An author with wizard-like gifts'' Wall Street Journal''Ide is an original as a suspense writer: every novel he writes feels like a new invention'' Washington Post

Isaiah is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach. A man on the road and on the run, he is hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state''s most prolific serial killer.

Isaiah''s former sidekick Dodson has also had to change life, in an attempt to keep his wife and child. His devil''s bargain is an internship at an LA advertising agency, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual. The ageing company''s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic and Dodson - ''the hustler''s hustler'' - just may be the right man for the job.

Both Isaiah and Dodson are at a crossroads, but can they leave their former lives behind for good?

As IQ plugs a mysterious USB into his laptop, he's horrified to see what flashes across the screen: his girlfriend Grace is sweaty and bedraggled - her wrists wrapped with duct tape. Grace has been kidnapped by the likes of Skip Hanson, a brutish hitman with a vendetta against Isaiah. As IQ and Dodson attempt to locate Grace based on scant evidence, (read: a Sonic burger wrapper in one grainy image) they must wend through the stark, unrelenting East California landscape in search of clues. Just as the case grows increasingly complicated, and Grace's situation more dire, another powerful enemy emerges from the woodwork. And all the while, watching them closely, is the newly minted LAPD detective assigned to Grace's case, Winnie Hando, a complicated woman with a complicated agenda of her own.

''The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time'' NEW YORK TIMES

'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'Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem - Joe Ide brings us Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit'Ian Rankin'How the hell do you write a mystery about Philip Marlowe, set it in Los Angeles, and still make it a total gobsmacking original? That's the miracle of Joe Ide's The Goodbye Coast. Ide has created a Philip Marlowe for the 2020s'James Patterson'Not so much a reimagining of Chandler's world as a reinvigoration. By transplanting Philip Marlowe to 2021 LA, Joe Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction's icons. The Goodbye Coast is a blast from start to finish'Dennis Lehane The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los AngelesLos 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, living beneath the shadow of his father - a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective now drinking his life away.Marlowe's latest client is tyrannical starlet Kendra James. Kendra's husband was fatally shot near their Malibu home, but even though that murder remains unresolved, the actress is more interested in tracking down her 17-year-old stepdaughter, who hasn't been seen for weeks. But things get complicated after Marlowe lands a second missing person search from British academic Ren Stewart, whose ex-husband has kidnapped their seven-year-old son. Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide's The Goodbye Coast is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.

''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

''Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem - Joe Ide brings us Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit''Ian Rankin

''How the hell do you write a mystery about Philip Marlowe, set it in Los Angeles, and still make it a total gobsmacking original? That''s the miracle of Joe Ide''s The Goodbye Coast. Ide has created a Philip Marlowe for the 2020s''James Patterson

''Not so much a reimagining of Chandler''s world as a reinvigoration. By transplanting Philip Marlowe to 2021 LA, Joe Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction''s icons. The Goodbye Coast is a blast from start to finish''Dennis Lehane

The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler''s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles

Los 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, living beneath the shadow of his father - a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective now drinking his life away.

Marlowe''s latest client is tyrannical starlet Kendra James. Kendra''s husband was fatally shot near their Malibu home, but even though that murder remains unresolved, the actress is more interested in tracking down her 17-year-old stepdaughter, who hasn''t been seen for weeks.

But things get complicated after Marlowe lands a second missing person search from British academic Ren Stewart, whose ex-husband has kidnapped their seven-year-old son.

Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide''s The Goodbye Coast is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.