false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255890659m/1590979.jpg 1590979 14 <b>They're baaaccck.</b> Their first caper, <I>The Spellman Files</i>, was a <I>New York Times</i> bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a side-splittingly funny story of suspicion, surveillance, and surprise. When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. She's been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspect's name: John Brown), convinced he's up to no good -- even if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not. When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out, it is Morty, Izzy's octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defense, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and diner sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- as only she, a thirty-year-old licensed professional, can. When not compiling Suspicious Behavior Reports on all her family members, staking out her neighbor, or trying to keep her sister, Rae, from stalking her "best friend," Inspector Henry Stone, Izzy has been busy attempting to apprehend the copycat vandal whose attacks on Mrs. Chandler's holiday lawn tableaux perfectly and eerily match a series of crimes from 1991­-92, when Izzy and her best friend, Petra, happened to be at their most rebellious and delinquent. As <I>Curse of the Spellmans</i> unfolds, it's clear that Morty may be on retainer, but Izzy is still very much on the case...er, cases -- her own and that of every other Spellman family member. (Re)meet the Spellmans, a family in which eavesdropping is a mandatory skill, locks are meant to be picked, past missteps are never forgotten, and blackmail is the preferred form of negotiation -- all in the name of unconditional love. 2372922 book 11 3 2008 Curse of the Spellmans (Spellman Series, Book 2) total:1348|5:404|4:633|3:266|2:35|1:10| 1348 5430 1815 331 4 1 false false Tue Jul 29 10:23:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 18:44:52 -0700 2008
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So, we revisit Isabel and the rest of the Spellman family, but they're not as colorful as I remember them. The Spellman parents aren't as nosey, and her younger sister, Rae, is not the little spy she was in the first b...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 26 13:17:12 -0800 2008 Fri May 30 13:20:18 -0700 2008
Two years have passed since Lisa Lutz’s debut novel introduced the lovably, dysfunctional Spellman Family and mesmerized readers from coast to coast with the kind of snoopi...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 17:56:34 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 14:24:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 29 13:43:32 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 16 08:35:58 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:42:18 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:42:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 10:06:49 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 10:19:05 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 05 12:10:50 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 12:16:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:19:40 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 16:08:32 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 11:51:50 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 11:59:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 10:25:45 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 10:33:12 -0800 2009
The book is set in California in the midst of a functioning dysfunctional fam...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 16:45:03 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 14:16:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 04:49:12 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 15:04:38 -0700 2009 By Lisa Lutz

The brief testimonials which are included on the book jackets or paperback covers can tell a reader a lot about the book. If the blurb is from a well-respected author such as Scott Turow or Tom Wolfe or even from an established book critic like J...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 20:49:54 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 21:04:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 10:31:02 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 17:16:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 15:20:39 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 15:25:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Dec 21 17:47:20 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 17:47:47 -0800 2008
That’s not how the second in Lisa Lutz’s series on the Spellman family of private investigators starts. No, a lot more happens before thirty-year-old Izzy Spellman is legally restrained from being ne...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 22:28:12 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:05:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 12:46:09 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:54:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 18 19:56:25 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 02 10:37:45 -0800 2008 Lisa Lutz has a refreshing way of writing and I highly recommend that you read her first book.
I’m almost done with the 2nd and I’m DYING to finish it tonight! Izzy the main charcater is like a dog with a bone when it comes to find out the dirt, she won’t let up unt...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1590979