VJ Books Presents Author Joe Ide!
Joe Ide is an American crime fiction writer of Japanese-American descent whose debut novel IQ (2016) received critical acclaim and was included on numerous top ten book lists. It was nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Writer.
In his most recent novel, The Goodbye Coast, the seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe’s troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who’s unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy.
Ide began his writing career writing screenplays. When he sold his first screenplay, he started writing professionally. He was a successful screenplay writer, but eventually ran out of patience and enthusiasm and left the profession. It was after this that he began writing novels. His first novel, IQ, was published in 2016 and introduced his leading character, Isaiah Quintabe. IQ won the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, as well as the Macavity and Anthony Awards for Best First Novel, and has been optioned for cable television.
Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles. As a child, he loved Sherlock Holmes stories, and his interest in the genre continued into his adult life. Ide earned a graduate degree in education and spent a brief period working as a school teacher, then as a university educator. He realized education didn’t suit him and became a business consultant and worked in human resources for some time before deciding to write screenplays.
Ide currently lives in Santa Monica, California.
You can find a signed copy of The Goodbye Coast and other Joe Ide signed books below.
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Joe Ide Bibliography
IQ Series
- IQ - 2016
- Righteous - 2017
- Wrecked - October 2018
- Hi Five - 2020
- Smoke - 2021
- The Goodbye Coast - 2022
Joe Ide Awards
- Winner of The Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel
- Winner of the Macavity Award for Best First Novel
- Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel
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