The third installment in The Spellmans series is the best so far. Isabel, in having to do some growing up, has become a more complex character, primarily be becoming a little less self-involved, but she is still hilarious, and she will never, thank heaven, be completely reformed. Her older, perfect, lawyer brother is perhaps even becoming more like Isabel.

The segments of Isabel with her court appointed therapists are very funny and good lessons in how to evade meaningful answers to difficult questions.

Isabel has several small issues she is dealing with here, although I would hesitate to call any one of them a real case. She is on leave from her parents private investigation business, a fact that displeases her parents no end. Several episodes of spying, tailing, awkward lunches with Dad and ultimatums finally get Isabel to get off the fence and make a decision about her life's work. This makes everyone but her little sister Rae happy, and this ending along with a couple of other loss ends, will no doubt face resolution in book four.