The Spellman Files: Document #1 by Lisa Lutz (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz Meet Izzy Spellman, a 28-year-old private eye working for her familys investigative business--a family that puts the fun in dysfunctional--in this irresistible, laugh-out-loud debut novel.Simon & Schuster FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From the award-winning author of The Passenger comes the first novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel "Izzy" Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators.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 shes good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her familys firm, Spellman Investigations. Invading peoples 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. 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 (whos become addicted to "recreational surveillance"); and tracking down her uncle (who randomly disappears on benders dubbed "Lost Weekends"). But when Izzys parents hire Rae to follow her (for the purpose of ascertaining the identity of Izzys 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 theres a hitch: she must take one last job before theyll 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. Author Biography Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling, Alex Award-winning author of the Spellman Files series, as well as the novels The Accomplice, Heads You Lose (with David Hayward), How to Start a Fire, The Passenger, and The Swallows. She has also written for film and TV, including HBOs The Deuce. She lives in upstate New York. Review "Fast-paced, irreverent, and very funny, The Spellman Files is like Harriet the Spy for grown-ups." -- Curtis Sittenfeld, author of The Man of My Dreams and Prep Review Quote "Truly the funniest book Ive read in years."-- Susan Elizabeth Phillips Description for Reading Group Guide An Introduction to The Spellman Files by Lisa LutzSurveillance ReportSubject: Isabel "Izzy" Spellman Age: 28 Occupation: Private Investigator Employer: Spellman Investigations Residence: 1799 Clay Street (Spellman family residence and location of Spellman Investigations), San Francisco Hobbies: WatchingGet Smartreruns, entering and exiting through windows rather than doors, drinking Known Associates: Petra Clark (Lower Haight Street hairdresser), Milo (bartender at The Philosophers Club) Recent Suspicious Activity: Impersonating a schoolteacher, physically threatening a 14-year-old boy, breaking and entering a SFPD officers apartmentIsabel "Izzy" Spellman -- Private Investigator and one of the most original comic heroines to debut in years -- is on the run. After a dizzying chase through the streets of San Francisco, she turns to confront her pursuers: "Mom. Dad. This has to stop" (p. 2). Izzys plea betrays her desperation -- not only to shake their loving but overweening parental attentions but to make sense of the chaos* into which her life has recently devolved. Shes just been dumped by a dentist, the witnesses in the cold case shes working are stonewalling her, and her fifteen-year-old sister, Rae, has disappeared -- presumably kidnapped. Izzy is well aware that her life and family are more than a little unusual but she needs answers. The problem is, she doesnt know the questions or even whom to ask.At the age of 28, Izzy still lives with her parents in their rambling San Francisco Victorian home-cum-office. An operative in the family detective business, Spellman Investigations, she has never held down a job where deceit and suspicion werent considered standard operating procedure. When she finds herself under interrogation by Henry Stone -- the police inspector in charge of Raes disappearance -- Izzy casts back to the root of the Spellman troubles: the birth of her older brother, David. Handsome, brilliant, athletic, and possessed of "modesty beyond his years" (p. 11), David is a freakishly perfect man born into their otherwise perfectly freakish family. Two years older than Izzy and now a successful corporate lawyer, David defined everything that Izzy would rebel against being.After years of petty and not-so-petty delinquency, Izzy eventually settles down to an acceptably respectable lifestyle but her parents continue to fear that the "old Isabel" might return and corrupt the precocious and extremely impressionable Rae. On a routine surveillance job at the San Francisco Tennis Club, Izzy falls for Daniel Castillo, a handsome dentist who shares her passion for Get Smart reruns. While most parents might find Daniel promising boyfriend material -- and certainly several steps up from Izzys usual type -- a string of run-ins with unsavory dentists has left them suspicious of anyone authorized to dispense laughing gas. As Izzy resorts to one madcap subterfuge after another in the hopes of keeping Daniel and her parents in the dark about one another, she realizes that its high time to leave Spellman Investigations and start a normal life.Unfortunately, Izzys parents extort her into taking on one last case before theyll pony up with the references she needs to find other work. Much to everyones chagrin, Izzy becomes obsessed with solving the hitherto unsolved fifteen-year-old missing persons case, no matter whose toes she steps on. In the midst of it all, Izzy must take time out to track down her reprobate Uncle Ray -- whose "lost weekends" of gambling and binge drinking now figure in the double-digits -- as well as ferret out the identity of Davids secret girlfriend. So when Rae mysteriously disappears, Izzy finds herself pushed to the edge of what this hard-drinking, wise-cracking PI can handle.At once heart-warming, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny,The Spellman Filesis a brilliantly zany take on the hard-boiled detective g Details ISBN1416532404 Author Lisa Lutz Short Title SPELLMAN FILES Publisher Simon & Schuster Language English ISBN-10 1416532404 ISBN-13 9781416532408 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2008 Subtitle Document #1 DOI 10.1604/9781416532408 Imprint Simon & Schuster Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2008-02-01 NZ Release Date 2008-02-01 US Release Date 2008-02-01 UK Release Date 2008-02-01 Pages 384 Publication Date 2008-02-01 Audience General Series The Spellman Series Number 1 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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