A review by liketheday
IQ by Joe Ide

3.0

I'm a sucker for mystery stories with a Sherlock Holmes twist, so of course I had to pick this one up. The Sherlock conceit stretched my credulity to its limit right from the beginning (he has a trailer hitch, so he must have a boat? Okayyyyyy...), so that wasn't great, but I'm also a sucker for mysteries where you know whodunnit but not why, and that part of the story was pretty well done. Unfortunately, that part of the story was also too short for a book, so it was interspersed with some often tedious backstory of our titular detective. Darn. I'm hoping that book two will have 100% less backstory and 100% more interesting mystery plot fun.