Spellman #1
Simon & Schuster
February 2008
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Featuring: Isabel "Izzy" Spellman
384 pages ISBN: 1416532404 EAN: 9781416532408 Paperback Add to Wish List
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.
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