I’m excited to welcome the Compulsive Reader Book Tour for Joe Ide’s new novel, The Goodbye Coast this morning. If you haven’t tried a Joe Ide book before, this is a great one to make his acquaintance with. I’ve got this little spotlight post and some first impressions of the novel coming along in a bit. Let’s start by learning a little about this book, okay?
Book Details:
Book Title: The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK)/Mulholland Books (US)
Release date: February 17, 2022 (UK), February 1, 2022 (US)
Format: Hardcover/Ebook/Audiobook
Length: 301 pages
About the Book:
Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe, gets a dramatic and colourful reinvention at the hands of award-winning novelist Joe Ide.
The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he’s a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable and confident private detective, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective, famous throughout the city, who’s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe’s mother.
Marlowe, against his better judgment, 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. Together, they will realize that one of their clients may be responsible for the murder of her own husband, a washed-up director in debt to Albanian and Russian gangsters, and that the client’s trouble-making daughter may not be what she seems.
Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide’s GOODBYE COAST is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.
“Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem – Joe Ide brings us a Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit” – Ian Rankin
About the Author:
Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles. His favourite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers before writing IQ, his debut novel, inspired by his early experiences and love of Sherlock. Joe lives in Santa Monica, California.
My thanks to Tracy Fenton and Compulsive Readers for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials they provided.
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