Hi Five
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3.9 • 203 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
One woman. Five personalities. Private investigator IQ is back to piece together a Newport Beach murder with an eyewitness who gives "people person" a whole new meaning.
Christiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach boutique. Isaiah Quintabe is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence. If he can't, Angus will harm the brilliant PI's new girlfriend, ending her career.
The catch: Christiana has multiple personalities. Among them, a naïve, beautiful shopkeeper, an obnoxious drummer in a rock band, and a wanton seductress.
Isaiah's dilemma: no one personality saw the entire incident. To find out what really happened the night of the murder, Isaiah must piece together clues from each of the personalities . . . before the cops close in on him.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Some cases are dangerous to solve. Other cases are dangerous not to solve. In the fourth novel in Joe Ide’s wickedly entertaining IQ series, East Long Beach’s toughest unlicensed detective, Isaiah Quintabe, is hired by a powerful arms dealer to help defend his daughter, Christiana, who is both the sole witness to a murder and the number one suspect. Her father would really, really like it if Isaiah could clear her name, but there’s a complication: Cristiana has multiple personality disorder, and each persona only witnessed a fraction of what actually happened. Ide’s plots are rock solid—we’re always surprised, even when we think we know where the story is going, and we relish his over-the-top twists. But mostly we like hanging with the genius IQ and his rough-edged crew—the needling banter between the PI and his lovably shady pal Dodson is good for laughs.
Customer Reviews
Not up to his previous work
The best thing about the main character in the prior book was his sense if justice. In this book he threw that away. There were also many things that made no sense. For example, the main character set it up that two killers would come for him so he could find out who they were and who sent them, but instead of luring them in he ditched them.
Later his girlfriend wanted to help him when he was kidnapped but never called any of their mutual friends, who knew where the enemy hideout was located.
Hi Five
Confusing and endless. The author needs an editor.
Hi five
For a guy that was supposed to be smart, he sure did stupid things. Oh and what was his source of income?