This was my first experience with the IQ (Isaiah Quintabe) series, and I plan to go back for more. IQ's private detective business in Long Beach is just beginning to take off when he meets Grace, an attractive painter who needs help finding her mom Sarah, disappeared 10 years earlier. Although Isaiah is sure that her disappearance has something to do with Grace's dead father's connection to the military and his time at Abu Ghraib, Grace doesn't want to probe the past. Told from both Isaiah's point of view and that of a group of former soldiers who did horrible things at Abu Ghraib and are now trying to run from the past, this story is suspenseful, realistic, and psychologically true.
I love the character of IQ, smart and tough but modest and mild-mannered. He functions as a one-man neighborhood watch, solving problems for people too poor to pay with cash. As payment, he accepts knitted wool scarves (in LA), window washing, and artwork, among other things. Well drawn and likable side characters round out an excellent story.
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