Joe Ide’s “Hi Five” (Mulholland, 341 pages, $27) marks the return of Isaiah “IQ” Quintabe—the brilliant young African-American private investigator working in East Long Beach, Calif. IQ, known to have the largest brain in the neighborhood, continues to accept payment for certain cases (such as the safe return of a kidnapped Pomeranian) in goods and services (such as “a hearty stew of vegetables, spices and pork cooked in butter”). But his latest “client” is no good-hearted local citizen; Angus Byrne is a loathsome arms dealer whom IQ calls “a plague on the world.”Byrne...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 24, 2020 16:07 UTC