''Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandler... The wisecracking dialogue, outlandish characters and vicious slapstick make The Goodbye Coast a joy to read from the very first page''
The Times
''A terrific read - pacy, with tension, pathos, wonderful descriptions of LA and some lovely one-liners''
Guardian
''Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem - Joe Ide brings us Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit''
Ian Rankin
''How the hell do you write a mystery about Philip Marlowe, set it in Los Angeles, and still make it a total gobsmacking original? That''s the miracle of Joe Ide''s The Goodbye Coast. Ide has created a Philip Marlowe for the 2020s''
James Patterson
''Not so much a reimagining of Chandler''s world as a reinvigoration
