Pocket
February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Featuring: Izzy Spellman
416 pages ISBN: 1439199965 EAN: 9781439199961 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF THIRTY-TWO, FORMER WILD CHILD
ISABEL “IZZY” SPELLMAN HAS FINALLY AGREED TO TAKE OVER THE
FAMILY BUSINESS. AND THE TRANSITION WON’T BE A SMOOTH ONE.
First among her priorities as head of Spellman
Investigations is to dig up some dirt on the competition,
slippery ex-cop Rick Harkey—a task she may enjoy a little
too much. Next, faced with a baffling missing-persons case
at the home of an aging millionaire, Izzy hires an actor
friend, Len, to infiltrate the mansion as an undercover
butler—a role he may enjoy a little much.
Meanwhile, Izzy is being blackmailed by her mother
(photographic evidence of Prom Night 1994) to commit to
regular blind dates with promising professionals—an
arrangement that doesn’t thrill Connor, an Irish bartender
on the brink of becoming Ex-boyfriend #12.
At
Spellman headquarters, it’s business as unusual. Doorknobs
and light fixtures are disappearing every day, Mom’s been
spotted crying in the pantry, and a series of increasingly
demanding Spellman Rules (Rule #27: No Speaking Today) can’t
quite hold the family together. Izzy also has to decipher
weekly “phone calls from the edge” from her octogenarian
lawyer, Morty, as well as Detective Henry Stone’s mysterious
interest in rekindling their relationsh . . . well, whatever
it was.
Just when it looks like things can’t go more
haywire, little sister Rae’s internship researching pro bono
legal cases leads the youngest Spellman to launch a
grassroots campaign that could spring an innocent man from
jail—or land Rae in it.
The Spellmans Strike Again
is hands down the most hilarious, thrilling, and moving
book in this bestselling, award-nominated series. And it
proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Isabel Spellman, no
matter how much she matures, will never be able to follow
Rule #1: Act Normal.