LA crime-fiction
It’s always a joy to be introduced to a new character by a writer one’s never read before. Even, with that in mind, Joe Ide’s LA-based private eye Isaiah Quintabe, also known as IQ, is a revelation, a brilliant, twenty-first century African American Sherlock Holmes. In Smoke, published this month by W&N, he … Continue readings
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