‘Hi Five’ is the fourth installment of Joe Ide's crime series featuring IQ the private eye.
. There, he hung out with the local kids, picking up their speech, style and musical tastes.
The characters and cadences of Ide’s childhood — and his self-professed love for Sherlock Holmes mysteries — have found their way into his engrossing crime series and its protagonist, Isaiah Quintabe. Known as IQ, Quintabe is an unlicensed private eye and neighborhood hero whose mission is “fighting human suffering and indifference” wherever he finds it.
Since IQ’s eponymous debut three years ago, his cases have become more complex, the stakes raised for the African American detective and a cast of regular characters who give the series an unexpected warmth and reflect the author’s admiration forIn “Hi Five,” the fourth book in a series set in East Long Beach, the forces of darkness seem to be winning.
Byrne desperately needs IQ’s help in clearing his only daughter, Christiana, before she is arrested for the murder of Byrne’s right-hand man. The man, Tyler Barnes, is shot during a fitting of a custom suit at Christiana’s Newport Beach atelier. But with no witnesses and the young woman seen on surveillance cameras fleeing and returning to the scene, police suspect her of killing Barnes and disposing of the weapon.
IQ find himself in a tough spot. If he doesn’t help with the case, Byrne’s goons threaten to cripple his girlfriend so she can’t perform with the Long Beach Symphony. As if that’s not enough to strain his current relationship, IQ’s former girlfriend, artist Grace Monarova , has suddenly returned from New Mexico.The case becomes more complicated when IQ learns that Christiana isn’t just the prime suspect but also suffers from multiple personality disorder.
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