IQ
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...
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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. Th
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780316267724 (0316267724)
ASIN: 316267724
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
In Joe Ide’s novel, IQ , Isaiah Quintabe is a humble genius with a honed talent for observation and deduction combined with some serious street smarts that fuse into a unique, modern-day Sherlock Holmes. IQ helps his fellow inhabitants of South Central LA solve problems of all kinds, with forms of ...
The book opens with a criminal in the making, and a very slapstick-y incident. But even while grinning about that, you get the sense that this character isn't going to be good for more laughs. He's not -- but thankfully, we don't have to spend a lot of time on him, because Isaiah Quintabe (a.k.a. IQ...
Sherlock Holmes in the hood. Recommended.
I just love this guy Isiah, and don't make me spell his last name, HA! Violence is not his way, he helps people for whatever they can give him and he feels bad for a deal gone bad in his past and takes care of a teenager who lost both of his parents because of that deal.I heard this was going to be ...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life.I liked this one. I didn't love it but I liked it well enough. I did seem to take me a little longer to read this book than it usually would and I think that a big reason was that this was a book that was easy for me to set aside. I am really ...
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