false 129117 24 Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations. Invading people's privacy comes naturally to Izzy. In fact, it comes naturally to all the Spellmans. If only they could leave their work at the office. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail, and wiretap a Spellman. Part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry, Izzy walks an indistinguishable line between Spellman family member and Spellman employee. Duties include: completing assignments from the bosses, aka Mom and Dad (preferably without scrutiny); appeasing her chronically perfect lawyer brother (often under duress); setting an example for her fourteen-year-old sister, Rae (who's become addicted to "recreational surveillance"); and tracking down her uncle (who randomly disappears on benders dubbed "Lost Weekends"). But when Izzy's parents hire Rae to follow her (for the purpose of ascertaining the identity of Izzy's new boyfriend), Izzy snaps and decides that the only way she will ever be normal is if she gets out of the family business. But there's a hitch: she must take one last job before they'll let her go -- a fifteen-year-old, ice-cold missing person case. She accepts, only to experience a disappearance far closer to home, which becomes the most important case of her life. The Spellman Files is the first novel in a winning and hilarious new series featuring the Spellman family in all its lovable chaos. 2896642 book 11 3 2007 The Spellman Files (Spellman Series, Book 1) total:2514|5:602|4:1132|3:628|2:124|1:28| 2514 9698 3443 729 5 6 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 09:17:13 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 09:18:56 -0800 2008 Funny read.
I-want-to-be-this-character read.

Lisa Lutz, if you ever read this, please don't take it the wrong way. By beach read I mean that I was completely entertained, laughed out loud a couple of times, and didn't want to move while I read it. Your book sucke...more...]]> 1 6 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 14:37:34 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 14:38:23 -0700 2007 Lutz, Lisa – 1st book
Simon and Schuster, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9781415432392
First Sentence: I duck into the parking garage hoping to escape.
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I knew nothing about this book when I picked it off the shelf as one of the local library's "Reader's Choice" books. I was pleasantly surprised about the subject matter: a family-owned private investigation business fe...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 13:20:40 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 20:11:12 -0700 2008
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Unsurprisingly, this attitude has profound consequences for the relationships in the family. David is a perfect child, and as a very smart guy takes the first chance he can to g...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 13 17:49:58 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 17:50:51 -0800 2009 Downloaded from audible.com.
This is a rather strange book. I don’t know if it’s going to be a series or not. The Spellmans are a family wholly engaged in private detecting. Mr. and Mrs. Spellman met doing private detective work and got mar...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 07:44:30 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 07:44:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 22:39:46 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 22:44:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 04 16:49:45 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 16:50:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 22:31:54 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:08:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 12:01:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 07:19:25 -0700 2009
1. I remembered that it had been popular a few years back
2. I was out of things to read
3. It had been recommended for fans of Janet Evanovich.

I liked it. It's the story of the Spellman family, two generations of private inv...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:52:55 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 19:06:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=129117