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A review by jmatkinson1
Righteous by Joe Ide
4.0
Isaiah Quintabe (IQ) is a young private investigator from Los Angeles. Trying to walk a line between the various gangs in his neighbourhood, IQ is a loner with just an ill-trained dog for company. One of his cases brings IQ into contact with the Chinese Triads, people traffickers from Las Vegas, but when this becomes a feud between the Chinese and the Latino gangs it becomes more than IQ can handle. Meanwhile he is haunted by the unsolved murder of his brother.
This is the second IQ story and I have not read the first. As a stand-alone book it works really well, I didn't feel that I had missed a lot of backstory. The plot follows two major narratives - the Las Vegas gang story and IQ's brother's death - each is strong but sometimes the story jumps a little in time and place which can make it hard to follow. I'm not really a fan of American crime novels involving drugs, gangs etc but this is a strong book.
This is the second IQ story and I have not read the first. As a stand-alone book it works really well, I didn't feel that I had missed a lot of backstory. The plot follows two major narratives - the Las Vegas gang story and IQ's brother's death - each is strong but sometimes the story jumps a little in time and place which can make it hard to follow. I'm not really a fan of American crime novels involving drugs, gangs etc but this is a strong book.