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Trail of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #5)

by Lisa Lutz (Goodreads Author)

3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 · rating details · 3,602 ratings · 734 reviews

The fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling series by Lisa Lutz, featuring the fearless private investigator Izzy Spellman and her quirky, yet endearing, family of sleuths.For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman might be the most normal member of her family. Mom has taken on an outrageous assortment of extracurricular activities. Dad has a secre...more

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Published February 28th 2012 by Simon & Schuster

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Mar 02, 2012 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

I gave the first 4 books 5-stars but this gets 3-stars. And I'm not only rating this on the incredibly upsetting event. Although that was ridiculously awful! I didn't read four books where I felt like I was climbing Mt. Everest to only barely reach the top in the fifth book and then be thrown off the cliff before I can even take a look around! I was also very disappointed by all the characters. No Henry/Rae scenes. No Henry anything basically! His character was wasted in this installment. There...more

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May 31, 2012 Shelley aka Gizmo's Reviews rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-releases, wishlist, borrowed-library

*Rating* 4.0
*Genre* Mystery/Comedy

*Review forthcoming*

I seriously love this series! I am so happy that after a nearly 2 years of a reprieve from writing this series, Trail of the Spellman's returns without any luster being lost on the characters or the storyline itself.

More shortly.

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May 24, 2012 Stacy Curry rated it 5 of 5 stars

REALLY we have to wait a whole year!! I love the Spellmans....

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Apr 03, 2012 Naomi rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have that deep fear concerning the survivability of the Spellman clan and I hope LL wasn't trying to tell us something. I loved this book..it was LL typical high standard of writing with a ton of questions at the end!

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Apr 15, 2012 Theresa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-general, library-reads, 2012

Releasing March 2012.

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Feb 11, 2012 Denise rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2012, humor, mystery

For fans of the Spellman series this book will definitely not disappoint. The Spellman family is back and as dysfunctional as ever. There are a couple of new additions to the family that readers will enjoy.

I loved this book. I felt like the additions to the Spellman family totally made me love the family even more than I already did. I don't want to give too much away since the book hasn't come out yet, but to me certain parts of this book just seemed bittersweet. Izzy wins a big victory in the...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Spellmans are back in this fifth installment of the series. This time they've been hired by a brother to follow his sister, a wife who wants her husband's every move tracked, and parents who want their college-age daughter investigated for possible bad behavior. Of course there's a twist to each one not to mention Izzy's mother's strange behavior, Rae getting kicked out of David's house for a reason no one is revealing, and some unexpected visitors.

Lisa Lutz's family of PIs provide endless...more

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Mar 17, 2013 Trick Brown rated it 4 of 5 stars

Clearly, if I am reading the fifth book in any series it's because I thoroughly enjoy the series. What first attracted me to these stories was the originality in their presentation. Ms. Lutz uses a number of interesting, call them gimmicks, to present the story. Not as much for this novel, but she has often utilized in media res techniques as a way to foreshadow. Since the Spellman's are private investigators, she presents scenes as transcripts of recorded conversations. Which creates an interes...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Dorothy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, modern-day-mysteries

I've been reading really serious literature recently and I decided that I needed a bit of fluff to clear my reading palate. It doesn't get much fluffier than Lisa Lutz and her family of ditsy San Francisco detectives, the Spellmans.

This is the fifth in the Spellman series. Several years have passed in the family's history since the series began, and yet it is hard to see much growth in most of the family members. They still spend more time surveilling each other, trying to trip each other up, an...more I've been reading really serious literature recently and I decided that I needed a bit of fluff to clear my reading palate. It doesn't get much fluffier than Lisa Lutz and her family of ditsy San Francisco detectives, the Spellmans.

This is the fifth in the Spellman series. Several years have passed in the family's history since the series began, and yet it is hard to see much growth in most of the family members. They still spend more time surveilling each other, trying to trip each other up, and playing silly pranks than they ever do on working for their clients. It's really hard to see how they keep the business going.

In this episode, it is not only the Spellmans who are hiding things from each other, but all of their clients seem to have ulterior motives and are hiding secrets which may or may not impact the jobs they've hired the Spellmans to do.

On the home front, Rae, the younger daughter, is now in college. David and Maggie are married and are now the parents of an 18-month-old daughter who, for some mysterious reason, calls everything "banana." Our protagonist, Isabel ("Izzy"), the iconic middle child, has been living with Henry Stone for a while but is unable to commit to a future together.

The Spellman household and investigation firm has taken on a new member, Demetrius, the man who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder and who Maggie and Izzy had managed to get freed in the last book. In this episode of Spellmania also, Grammy Spellman comes to live with the family, an event which portends disaster on many fronts. To top it off, Henry Stone's mother, Gertrude, comes to visit and almost immediately falls for Izzy's disreputable bartender friend, Bernie. Complications ensue.

The plot for this mystery seems utterly impossible to summarize or even categorize. It's really a mess, just like the Spellman family, but a fairly entertaining mess.

Lisa Lutz writes with great good humor and she is able to create some interesting characters. She's been very successful with what she does so she obviously doesn't need any advice from me, but I would like to see her try her hand at a straightforward mystery that goes from point A to point B, all the way to point Z, without all the phony and distracting appendices and footnotes. But that's her shtick, I guess, and she's shticking to it. (less)

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Dec 31, 2012 Paula Phillips rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a series that I have really enjoyed for a long time now as each book provides not only the factor of mystery and intrigue , suspense and the occasional thrill as well as lighthearted humour. In Book #5 we discover that the oldest brother David has undergone a completely new transformation from sharp lawyer to stay-at-home dad and Rae is still dealing in her money-making ventures , Izzy is still continously getting into trouble with her parents but has she pushed it too far when her dad d...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Noah W rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

Lisa Lutz typically records the crazy, but plausible antics of the Spellmans. This file contains the realistic, very plausible musings of a tired investigator. In many ways the Spellmans have matured.

So I'll address how each of the characters have changed (matured):

Albert Spellman (Father): In this book he mainly does paperwork and runs the compnay like a normal boss. No more "retirement age crisis" or interesting hobbies.

Olivia Spellman (Mother): She no longer is obsessed with playing Yenta th...more

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Oct 28, 2012 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars

I really wanted to love this book.

I definitely loved Heads You Lose, the wonderfully fun and zany novel that Lisa Lutz wrote with her ex-boyfriend. (Read my review here.) And I have to say that Trail of the Spellmans is pretty entertaining, for the most part. It’s a continuation of The Spellman Files, a series of novels about a rather dysfunctional family detective agency. Isabel Spellman, a 30-something year old detective, working for the family agency, is in the middle of several cases. Her fa...more I really wanted to love this book.

I definitely loved Heads You Lose, the wonderfully fun and zany novel that Lisa Lutz wrote with her ex-boyfriend. (Read my review here.) And I have to say that Trail of the Spellmans is pretty entertaining, for the most part. It’s a continuation of The Spellman Files, a series of novels about a rather dysfunctional family detective agency. Isabel Spellman, a 30-something year old detective, working for the family agency, is in the middle of several cases. Her father has a secret. Her mother is behaving bizarrely and no one seems to comment on it. Her brother and sister are feuding and neither will tell Isabel what the problem is. Her boyfriend’s mother is coming to visit and her tiny niece, Sydney, calls everything a banana. It’s enough to push anyone to a breakdown.

In this book, the cases they’re working seem chosen to play up the family drama. Her mother is taking classes — suddenly, indiscriminately studying everything from pottery to Russian literature, every day of the week, and no seems to find that remarkable except Isabel. She and her sister, Rae, are shadowing clients who may or may not be involved in illegal dealings — possibly with each other — and her parents seem very reluctant to talk seriously about the conflicts of interest they are facing. And perhaps most importantly, Isabel and her boyfriend, Henry, are facing serious problems. (I would think that the biggest problem is that she refers to him as Ex-Boyfriend #13, even though they’re still together, but that seems par for the course.) Everything seems gearing up for a giant collision.

Some of this book is laugh-out-loud funny. There is some very clever writing and I would probably try another Lutz novel, perhaps an earlier Spellman “document” (this book is Document #5). Some of it plods along, particularly in the middle. I found the family a little too precious, a little too forcibly funny, and that, of course, takes all the fun out of it. When Isabel is hiding from her boyfriend, she goes to her brother, David. But she doesn’t ring the doorbell and ask for asylum; she sneaks in a window. It just seems forced. There is quite a big deal about the secret that has caused a falling-out between David and Rae, and while the secret is definitely sufficient to cause a family feud, it just seemed so totally implausible that it sort of spoiled the fun.

All in all, it wasn’t a total loss, but I’m not convinced this was the best of the Spellman books. I am still open to trying an earlier book, but not as eager as I was right after Heads You Lose.(less)

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Oct 07, 2012 Mysterious Ed rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: cozy-mystery, humor, private-detective

#5 in the "Izzy" Spellman series. My complaint for the first three books of this series was that they were excessively silly, disjointed, anecdotal tales of a dysfunctional family - and with the most dysfunctional member acting as narrator. In entry #4, "Izzy" Spellman grows up and the novel is more of a humorous private eye tale. In this entry, the first two hundred pages have regressed to the slapstick of the first four - only in the last sixty pages does "Izzy" compose herself, act adult-like...more

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Sep 28, 2012 Jamie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I tried to pace myself through another Spellman mystery but it didn't last. I finished it in 3 nights before bed and relished every minute.

Some favorite zany (yes, I used that word. yes, this series is the only place it is appropriate.) characters are back. However, the heartening part of this series is the characters are starting to grow personally. Rae is becoming an adult and making new decisions. David is changing...in strange new ways. Even Isabel manages to act like a petulant child but s...more

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Aug 10, 2012 Melki rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: humorous-mystery

My family's obligatory Sunday-night dinners have always had the atmosphere of a disappointing baseball game: lots of shouting, subpar and semidigestible dining options, and various individuals occasionally making a run for it.

Isabel Spellman

Here's the latest go-round from that wacky family of private investigators known as the Spellmans.

All the current cases seem rather mundane compared to the theatrics of Izzy's own family. Mom has overscheduled herself to the point of exhaustion with classes...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Andrea Mullarkey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Lisa Lutz is back with the Spellman crew. Everyone is a little older and remarkably some of them are even a little more grown up! In Trail of the Spellmans Rae is a freshman in college, Demetrius Merriweather is a regular employee in the family business, Isabel is still working as an investigator while dating Harry Stone and David and wife Maggie have a daughter Sydney who won’t stop saying the word “banana.” Of course Dad has a secret, Rae has a secret, David has a secret, Isabel has a secret,...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Paul Pessolano rated it 4 of 5 stars

“Trail of the Spellmans” by Lisa Lutz, published by Simon & Schuster.

Category – Mystery/Comedy

Just as Lays Potato Chips says, “You can’t eat just one”, Lisa Lutz has a series that, “You can’t read just one”.

The Spellman Detective Agency continues on its merry way in “Trail of the Spellmans”. This is the fifth book in the series and they must be read in order to get the most out of them.

The Spellmans I’m sure most of you know are a family of Private Investigators that mainly do surveillance w...more

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May 23, 2012 Tim Chamberlain rated it 5 of 5 stars

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The further adventures of a wonderfully dysfunctional PI and her entire dysfunctional clan.

With Trail of the Spellmans, the fifth book in the Spellmans series, Lisa Lutz delivers a fast and funny mystery that should please old and new fans alike.

The new installment follows the further adventures of Isabel “Izzy” Spellman (a San Francisco private investigator) and her family who just so happen to be her co-workers. There is n...more Written for the KAZI Book Review (http://kazibookreview.wordpress.com/):

The further adventures of a wonderfully dysfunctional PI and her entire dysfunctional clan.

With Trail of the Spellmans, the fifth book in the Spellmans series, Lisa Lutz delivers a fast and funny mystery that should please old and new fans alike.

The new installment follows the further adventures of Isabel “Izzy” Spellman (a San Francisco private investigator) and her family who just so happen to be her co-workers. There is no limit to the plotting that goes on between the family members of Spellman Investigations, and in the fifth book Lutz is still surprising me with her novel ideas on this front--you get the feeling that she might be a bad person to cross.

One hazard of writing the fifth book in a series is presenting the back-story of returning characters: how do you introduce these characters to brand new readers without boring your returning readers to tears? Luckily, there’s enough history from the first four books that Lutz has no problem providing a brief and funny snapshot of the whole family that certainly kept me entertained as a returning reader. In fact, Lutz gives just enough detail (and a few reminders that previous documents are available) to intrigue the reader, and I imagine those being introduced to the Spellmans in this fifth book will hurry out to get the first four.

While the Trail of the Spellmans is essentially a mystery, it distinguishes itself from much of the genre by replacing blood with dry humor and some surprisingly poignant scenes--there are moments with Izzy’s boyfriend and her Grammy (a priceless addition to the Spellman universe) that I’m amazed ring so true in a book this funny. Also, the fact that the novels are set up as “documents” written by Isabel allows Lutz to break down the fourth wall a bit with hilarious results. Lutz has written Isabel as someone that’s not quite right, knows it, and has a sense of humor about it.

Demetrius Merriweather (otherwise known as D) is a semi-new character, as he was introduced in the fourth book (The Spellmans Strike Again) as a wrongfully incarcerated man that Isabel and her sister eventually help to free. Now he is working for the Spellmans, and the ex-con is, somewhat unsurprisingly, the most hardworking and normal of any of them. His presence gives Lutz the option to diffuse some situations that otherwise would almost have to blow up before D’s arrival, and it definitely changes the dynamic of the house.

Despite D’s presence inter-family sabotage continues apace with the previous novels, actually upping the ante a bit with some child-rearing experimentation/treachery between some non-Izzy family members. While “child-rearing experimentation” may not sound very funny, Lutz somehow managed to make this bit the funniest part of of the book. There are a few pages from a fictitious children’s book included that are especially amazing--not only because they are hilarious, but because they give some important insight into some Spellman family history.

As always, lovers of footnote humor will not be disappointed with a Spellmans book, and I think Lutz actually coined a footnote joke on page 79. This is a thoroughly modern book, complete with text message conversations, thumb drives and terrorism jokes (really, they’re quite funny and honestly inoffensive). However, the bottom line is that Isabel’s comfortably steady knack for questionable decisions is still wildly entertaining. After all, would you really want a mystery heroine with a perfect love life and no penchant for hidden scotch?(less)

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May 03, 2012 Marlyn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, chick-lit

Things are stranger than usual in the Spellman family. Isabel's mother, Olivia, has suddenly signed up for a lot of evening classes. Her father, Albert has some kind of secret. Her siblings (David, older and Rae, younger) are suddenly not speaking to each other. And David's toddler daughter calls everything a banana (except bananas).

Isabel is the first to admit that she's not very good at relationships. Rather than just ask her family members what's going on, she investigates: tailing, eavesdrop...more

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Apr 18, 2012 Jessi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: appealing-characteristic-character, mystery, part-of-a-series, contemporary, 2012

The Spellmans are back! I like Lisa Lutz because she doesn't try to drag out the series. It's been over two years since the last book and everything has changed. Isabel's brother David is no longer a sharp-dressed shark of a lawyer, he's a stay-at-home, rather slovenly, dad. His eighteen-month-old daughter seems to be unable to say anything but "banana," although when presented with the fruit, she will say "Not apple!" Demetrius, the man they cleared of murder in the last book is now working for...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Barbara Bryant rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is the latest in a series of books about the Spellman family, a mother, father and two daughters (plus an occasional extra character) who run a home private investigation business. Our heroine is Izzy Spellman, the older daughter (there is also a brother who has little to do with the agency), a smart, iconoclastic, rude, heavy-drinking, really rather nice woman who has a checkered past. She is a good detective but can't keep her private life normal. Neither can anyone else in the family, ev...more

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Mar 30, 2012 Jeannie and Louis Rigod rated it 4 of 5 stars

What makes this novel for me, a winner, is the footnotes on almost every page. They are a joy to read and many times agree with.

Ms. Lutz takes us, the readers, upon a typical group of cases that are handled by the Spellman Private Investigative Agency. The narrative is given from the eldest daughter, Isabel Spellman. Isabel is a loving but quick and clever witted individual with strong ideas on how the firm should proceed on cases. Isabel is upset as something, or in this book, several somethin...more

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Mar 26, 2012 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's too late to be born into the Spellman family, but could I at least work for your family's detective agency? Or maybe I could live next door and come over and visit on a regular basis. I adore your family. But a few questions. Why did David ask Rae to move out of his in-law apartment and why aren't they speaking? Or even making eye contact? And why does young Sydney keep saying "banana", but freaks out if you offer her an actual banana? And why does Olivia (Mama Spellman) have such a full sc...more

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Mar 21, 2012 Alisha rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: amazon-vine, arc-s, books-i-own-that-i-ve-read, favorites, humor

I had mixed emotions when I found out that there was going to be a fifth document in the Spellman series and I literally didn't know until I opened up my Amazon Vine newsletter (I know, I know, "Shame on you!" and "Bad fan!"). At first I was thinking "Seriously?! Yayyyyy!!!!", but then I started thinking about how much I loved the fourth book and how I thought that it had such a satisfactory ending. Plus, I had sort of put The Spellman series to bed, gave them a "Rest in Peace", mourned for them...more I had mixed emotions when I found out that there was going to be a fifth document in the Spellman series and I literally didn't know until I opened up my Amazon Vine newsletter (I know, I know, "Shame on you!" and "Bad fan!"). At first I was thinking "Seriously?! Yayyyyy!!!!", but then I started thinking about how much I loved the fourth book and how I thought that it had such a satisfactory ending. Plus, I had sort of put The Spellman series to bed, gave them a "Rest in Peace", mourned for them, put up a shrine for them, and then slowly moved on (after numerous meltdowns and going through denial, anger, etc). But then here was a fifth book that had the potential to unravel all of the good and fuzzy feelings that the series as a whole gave me. Did I want to go through The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants series debacle all over again only this time naming it The Spellman Files debacle AKA the disappointing 5th document? No, I did not. However, I gave it a shot (as if I had any doubt that I would...) and surprisingly (not) loved it!

Seriously, Trail of the Spellmans: Document 5 was even more hilarious, zany, and entertaining than the first four. It was just so deliciously offbeat and out there that I would literally read a page, laugh my...head off and then re-read that same page over again. Sure, it took me twice as long to finish this book than it normally would, due to that, but that's okay, because I savored it THAT much more. I loved reading about Sydney saying "banana" to everything and then when Izzy hands her a banana, her freaking out going "No apple!". That had me in stitches. And David going to Izzy, "If you say [banana], I will throw you out the window". That whole subplot might've been my favorite.

Now, on to my favorite character: Izzy. Now, she's what Chelsea Handler (don't judge me okay, she's a guilty pleasure) would call 'a whole hot mess'. Well, I thought that Izzy had sort of grown up from 'whole hot mess' and matured to 'itty bitty hot mess'. Apparently, that's not really the case. Now, I could be all upset at her regressing, but you know what, her regressing made her that much more hilarious, so I didn't mind much. And she only regressed in a few areas. In others, particularly professional-wise, she made complete progress. Sure that progress was brought up by manipulative and maybe not so legal ways, but come on! This is the Spellman clan! What ELSE would you expect?

When I finished Trail of Spellmans: Document 5, my first thought was "...Whooo! Some fans are gonna be pissed!!!!" And I'm not wrong, some people are reacting negatively to it. While I'm not going to spoil the ending, I will say this: aren't there supposed to be two more books coming out in the Spellman series? This end may not be THE END! It might just be the end...of this novel. It can happen. I'd rather not freak out until the last book anyway. And even then, I freaked out at book number four just because it was the last novel, only it wasn't. And that freak out, mourning period, shrine thing happened for nothing. So, let's just take a collective deep breath...and wait.

Anyway, so I highly enjoyed Trail of the Spellmans: Document #5. It may just be my favorite of the Spellman books yet. And I can't wait until the next one as there are two more open spots in my shrine. Pick up this book if you want a hilarious read!(less)

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Mar 12, 2012 Tabi34 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Ahhh...the next installment of Izzy Spellman and her dysfunctional family/life. If you remember in book 4 she had moved in with Ex boyfriend #13 (she always calls them that from the start) and was in going to take over the family PI business.

Book 5 opens with her still living with Ex #13. Her brother David who married Maggie at the end of book 4 is now a stay at home dad to 18 month old Sydney. He has morphed into New David, a guy who doesn't care about money or his appearance. In fact he isn't...more

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Mar 07, 2012 RachelAnne rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventures, mysteries, novels

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Mar 05, 2012 Lighthearted rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: humorous-fiction, mystery

The Spellmans are back! As dysfunctional and secretive as ever, they now have new nicknames for each other as well as Code Phrases for meeting clients. The Eagle (Izzy’s mom) has inexplicably decided to take on a number of new hobbies, none of which she actually shows any interest in. The Tortoise (Izzy’s dad) has a secret. The Weasel (Rae) and David (nickname pending) aren’t speaking to each other and refuse to tell anyone what happened. The Gopher (Izzy) is determined to avoid having “the talk...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Book Him Danno rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-sent-by-author-publisher-for, 2012

The overwhelming thought I had as I read this book was Rory and Lorelei had decided to solve crimes. The dialogue was so fast, so snappy it reminded of the Gilmore Girls interacting at the diner. Thank goodness it was written down or I would have had to keep rewinding to keep up.

This is about a family, the Spellmans, more so than the crimes the dig into.
They are private detectives who all work together in a nonstop atmosphere of love and suspicion, like any good family who are also paid to be...more

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Feb 06, 2012 Victoria rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-in-a-series

This is one of the most fun, laugh-out-loud series that I have ever read. After the fourth installment, The Spellmans Strike Again, I had believed Internet rumours that said it would be the last Spellman book, so my delight was tremendous when I first heard about this book's imminent publication (and don't worry, this time the Internet is very upfront that an additional two books have been contracted in the series!)

I love Lutz's writing style and sense of humour - in fact, I first read The Spell...more

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Feb 01, 2012 Diane Wilkes rated it 4 of 5 stars

Why is Olivia Spellman becoming enmeshed in so many hobbies that keep her outside the home? Why is Albert Spellman putting up a Chinese Wall complete with a computer firewall? Why did David Spellman kick his sister Rae out of the house? And why is Izzy avoiding her sig other, Henry Stone, so assiduously?

All of these questions are answered--some sooner, some later--in Trail of the Spellmans, the fifth installment of The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz. Some things have changed. Demetrius Merriweather...more

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Lisa Lutz grew up in Southern California. After graduating high school, she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, University of Leeds in England and San Francisco State University, although she still does not have a bachelor's degree.

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