I have not read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes work so I’m only half familiar with the many references here and in other knockoffs. I get “Dodson” as “Watson” and this being a take on The Hound of the Baskervilles but beyond that, anything else was beyond me. So I went into this more interested in the story itself as opposed to how it matches up with its inspirational texts. And it’s mostly a good story. Joe Ide is a quality writer and this is a […]
Probably Book 1 of a Series, TBC
This is Joe Ide’s debut novel, and if – like the book copy says – it’s “inspired by his early experiences,” then I’m guessing his life is about a thousand times more eventful than mine. It’s all for the good though, since it helped him create this book. IQ is the nickname of private investigator Isaiah Quintabe, who – I have no doubt- we’ll be seeing in future installments of Ide’s work. Isaiah is a big picture, small detail man, much in the vein of […]