Hi Five by Joe Ide audiobook

Hi Five

By Joe Ide
Read by Zeno Robinson

Little, Brown & Company, Little, Brown 9780316509534

The IQ Series: Book 4

12.16 Hours • Unabridged
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One woman. Five personalities. Private investigator IQ is back to piece together a Newport Beach murder with an eyewitness who gives "people person" a whole new meaning. Christiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach boutique. Isaiah Quintabe is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence. If he can't, Angus will harm the brilliant PI's new girlfriend, ending her career. The catch: Christiana has multiple personalities. Among them, a naïve, beautiful shopkeeper, an obnoxious drummer in a rock band, and a wanton seductress. Isaiah's dilemma: no one personality saw the entire incident. To find out what really happened the night of the murder, Isaiah must piece together clues from each of the personalities . . . before the cops close in on him.

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Summary

Summary

Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year

A New York Times Best Book of the Year in Thrillers

Audiofile Magazine “Best of the Year”

A Crime Reads Pick of the Month

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Mysteries

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week

A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week

A Booklist Pick of the Week

One woman. Five personalities. Private investigator IQ is back to piece together a Newport Beach murder with an eyewitness who gives "people person" a whole new meaning.


Christiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach boutique. Isaiah Quintabe is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence. If he can't, Angus will harm the brilliant PI's new girlfriend, ending her career.


The catch: Christiana has multiple personalities. Among them, a naïve, beautiful shopkeeper, an obnoxious drummer in a rock band, and a wanton seductress.


Isaiah's dilemma: no one personality saw the entire incident. To find out what really happened the night of the murder, Isaiah must piece together clues from each of the personalities . . . before the cops close in on him.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Ide is a remarkable writer, inhabiting the personae and rendering the back stories of a diverse assortment of characters.” —Wall Street Journal
“Hit men, henchmen, bagmen—they all wander in and out of a highly diverting book that crackles with life and vividness.” — New York Times Book Review
“Ide delivers a fresh and wholly modern update to the genre…Rapid-paced, colorful dialogue pops off the page as he brings to life rappers, arms dealers, loan sharks, and gangsters across four novels.” —Time
“A messy story with many subplots, but it’s still completely entertaining, thanks to the sharp writing and Robinson’s stellar performance..Robinson expertly voices a large cast of characters to the point where it’s hard to believe he’s this audiobook’s sole narrator. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“The author is skilled at developing the humanity of every character, regardless of their perspective…That allows Hi Five to stand on its own for first-time readers, even as the series deepens longtime fans’ engagement.” — Los Angeles Times
“Stellar…readers will root for Ide’s distinctive lead every step of the way.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Ide goes dark with the skill of a noir master, leaving Isaiah in a very bad place and the reader gasping for breath. A stunning change of pace from one of crime fiction’s new stars.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Isaiah Quintabe has had some wild cases in the past, but nothing like this latest gig working for notorious criminal and all-around bad guy Angus Byrne…Add to that a Cambodian street gang and some illegal arms dealing and you’ve got just another day in the life of East Long Beach’s most acclaimed private eye.” —Library Journal
Engrossing . . . IQ's cases have become more complex, the stakes raised for the African American detective and a cast of regular characters who give the series an unexpected warmth. . . . The author is skilled at developing the humanity of every character, regardless of their perspective. It's a hallmark of Ide's evolving style that allows Hi Five to stand on its own for first-time readers, even as the series deepens longtime fans' engagement. . . . Hi Five succeeds on so many fronts as it sets IQ and the series' characters on an uncertain path down darker roads. —Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times
Savor the freshness, vividness and ingenuity of the author's prose. . . . There are real truths hidden in the entertainment. . . . Hit men, henchmen, bagmen -- they all wander in and out of a highly diverting book that crackles with life and vividness. —Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review
Mr. Ide is a remarkable writer, inhabiting the personae and rendering the back stories of a diverse assortment of characters... 'Hi Five' more than earns its triumphant title. —Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
The end result of all Ide's frenetic literary machinations, however, is a crime novel that gives readers a sense of the totality of life in all its possibility: comedy, violence, irrationality and heartbreak. It's no longer a fresh observation to say that Ide is an original as a suspense writer, but, certainly, every novel he writes - including Hi Five - feels like a new invention. —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
While novels about hotshot detectives have thrived since the days of Sherlock Holmes, Joe Ide delivers a fresh and wholly modern update to the genre. . . . Ide's rapid-paced, colorful dialogue pops off the page as he brings to life rappers, arms dealers, loan sharks and gangsters across four novels. —TIME
Buy Hi Five by the great Joe Ide, the latest in his brilliant series about Isaiah Quintabe, a modern Sherlock Holmes from Long Beach, Calif. Trust me on this: There's nobody out there right now better than Joe Ide. —Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
I"t's a mark of Ide's skill that he's able to pull off such a plot, and he does it with credibility and more than a little poignancy. —Michele Ross, The Plain Dealer
In Edgar-finalist Ide's stellar fourth IQ novel...readers will root for Ide's distinctive lead every step of the way. This innovative series continues to show promise for a long, high-quality run. —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Ide goes dark with the skill of a noir master, leaving Isaiah in a very bad place and the reader gasping for breath. A stunning change of pace from one of crime fiction's new stars. —Booklist, starred review
Mystery and detection compete with a gorgeous swarm of supercharged personalities on their own wild rides. —Kirkus
Ide is one of the rising stars of crime fiction, and he's back this month with the fourth installment in his celebrated IQ series. —Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads
Ide is probably my favorite crime novelist in the game today. This time, IQ must crack a case involving a woman with multiple personalities, creating Ide's most unique and entertaining premise yet. —The Real Book Spy
Exciting yet humorous —Shelf Awareness
HI FIVE is well worth reading for Ide's command of language.... Isaiah also continues to be one of the more distinctive characters in contemporary detective fiction. —BookReporter
Joe Ide creates a jumped-up, streetwise world--the tone owes something to Elmore Leonard--with Quintabe as its moral center. —Air Mail
These books are not for the faint of heart; there is lots of violence and profanity, and Ide does a great job of pointing out racism, sexism and economic inequality. I love this series. —Louise Penny
For all the cartoon violence and wisecracking, HI FIVE is a ruthless fable about our need for love. —Sunday Times
A engaging tour du force delivery of lively entertainment enhanced by wry humor. —Booklist (starred review)

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Author Bio: Joe Ide

Author Bio: Joe Ide

Joe Ide is the author of several books, including IQ, his debut novel, which won the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus awards. In 2019, CrimeReads magazine named him one of the decade’s “Rising Stars of Crime Fiction.” He grew up in south central Los Angeles, where his favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. He held a variety of different jobs, including Hollywood screenwriter, before writing IQ.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 12.16
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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