Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Sherlock of East Long Beach

Righteous by Joe Ide

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Righteous, Joe Ide’s second novel to feature Isaiah (“IQ”) Quintabe, follows the neighborhood detective as he continues the investigation into his brother’s murder while also being dragged by an old friend into a dangerous new case. When his dead brother’s girlfriend Sarita calls him out of the blue IQ knows she must need something. It turns out her sister Janine is in terrible trouble out in Las Vegas, owing money to a dangerous loan shark whose already threatened her boyfriend. When Janine and her boyfriend […]

My Dear Dodson

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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

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 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 […]



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