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Fixit (eBook, ePUB)



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'The best thing to happen to mystery writing in a very long time' NEW YORK TIMES
Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by maniacal hitman Skip Hanson, who is determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison.
With Grace's safety at stake, Isaiah reunites with his old partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, to track down Grace's whereabouts.
Trouble comes in the shape of Winne Hando, a homicide detective with something to prove. Winnie sees Isaiah's involvement as a potential embarrassment: an unlicensed PI can't be seen doing a better job than a police department.
As Winnie and Isaiah compete in their increasingly desperate hunt, Isaiah starts to fear that even if he can bring Grace home alive, things between them will never be the same ...
PRAISE FOR JOE IDE AND THE IQ SERIES
'Truly feels like an heir to Elmore Leonard' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'An electrifying combination of Holmesian mystery and SoCal grit' TIME
'One of the most singular characters in crime fiction' WASHINGTON POST
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2,99 €

The Goodbye Coast (eBook, ePUB)



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'Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandler... The wisecracking dialogue, outlandish characters and vicious slapstick make The Goodbye Coast a joy to read from the very first page'
The Times
'A terrific read - pacy, with tension, pathos, wonderful descriptions of LA and some lovely one-liners'
Guardian
'Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem - Joe Ide brings us Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit'
Ian Rankin
'How the hell do you write a mystery about Philip Marlowe, set it in Los Angeles, and still make it a total gobsmacking original? That's the miracle of Joe Ide's The Goodbye Coast. Ide has created a Philip Marlowe for the 2020s'
James Patterson
'Not so much a reimagining of Chandler's world as a reinvigoration. By transplanting Philip Marlowe to 2021 LA, Joe Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction's icons. The Goodbye Coast is a blast from start to finish'
Dennis Lehane
The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles
Los Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police.
Roaming the city streets is Philip Marlowe: a quiet, lonely, remarkably capable private detective, living beneath the shadow of his father - a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective now drinking his life away.
Marlowe's latest client is tyrannical starlet Kendra James. Kendra's husband was fatally shot near their Malibu home, but even though that murder remains unresolved, the actress is more interested in tracking down her 17-year-old stepdaughter, who hasn't been seen for weeks.
But things get complicated after Marlowe lands a second missing person search from British academic Ren Stewart, whose ex-husband has kidnapped their seven-year-old son.
Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide's The Goodbye Coast is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.
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3,99 €

Joe Ide

Ide, JoeJoe Ide, aufgewachsen in South Central, L.A., mit japanisch-amerikanischen Wurzeln, war Lehrer, Manager, Drehbuchautor und arbeitete für eine NGO. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Santa Monica.Lösch, ConnyConny Lösch, geboren 1969 in Darmstadt, lebt als Literaturkritikerin und Übersetzerin in Berlin.

Krimifestival 2018, Joe Ide "Stille Feinde"

Leben und Sterben in Long Beach: Joe Ide "Stille Feinde"

Es war kein Unfall, es war Mord. Diese Erkenntnis stellt die ohnehin schon turbulente Welt des gerade einmal 25 Jahre jungen Privatdetektivs Isaiah Quintabe, kurz I. Q. genannt, komplett auf den Kopf. Sein geliebter Bruder Marcus war nicht nur sein bester Freund. In ihm sah und sieht der grüblerische Einzelgänger die unerreichbare, bessere Version seiner selbst. Marcus war freundlich und aufgeschlossen, so ehrlich wie das Handwerk, mit dem der gelernte Maler seine Brötchen verdiente. Er war eine Rarität in Long Beach, L.A., wo die ungleichen Brüder zusammenhielten, wie Pech und Schwefel. Doch dann trat zunächst Sarita in Marcus' Leben, eine Frau, fast zu perfekt um wahr zu sein, eigentlich zu ambitioniert, um sich länger mit jemandem von Marcus' sozialem Status abzugeben. Doch die beiden wurden ein Paar. Die Brüder entfremdeten sich zunehmend voneinander. Und schließlich kam jener verhängnisvolle Tag, an dem I. Q. dem sterbenden Marcus am Straßenrand die Hand hielt. Ein Auto hatte ihn angefahren, der Fahrer die Flucht ergriffen, jede Hilfe kam zu spät.

Acht Jahre ist das her. Seitdem hält sich I.
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