In the Spellman Files, Rae Spellman "disappears" herself
and Henry Stone, San Francisco Police Inspector, is
instrumental in locating the missing teen. Now she's
Henry's shadow. Their friendship is not typical, but it
doesn't hurt anyone. Well, until Rae accidentally ran Henry
over before a driving lesson. For the benefit of nosy child
welfare case workers and teachers, Henry and Izzy are
suddenly "engaged." Meanwhile, Izzy is distracted by the
suspicious but good looking new neighbor, John Brown.
Obviously there must be something shady about the guy with
such a patently false name and all that shredded paperwork
coming out of the apartment. Plus, who really believes he's
a landscaper? Izzy's also noted some strange behavior in
regards to her older brother David. Suddenly reliable,
dependable David has stopped going to work, stopped
bathing, and his wife is nowhere to be found. Last but not
least. Izzy needs to find a new apartment when the actual
tenant of her sublease returns. Unfortunately, at the time
of his arrival Izzy is temporarily out of work making it
much harder to find new digs. Mix it all together, stick in
a few poor choices and some unfortunate consequences for
flavor, and you have ...The Curse of the Spellmans.
There is a plethora of funny situations and dry humor in
this book sure to put a smile on just about any reader's
face. The added bonus is how much you grow to love the
characters who put themselves into these ridiculous
situations. Izzy is trouble -and she knows it. She's also
honest about her shortcomings and it's part of what makes
her so endearing. Henry only appears strict in comparison
with the Spellmans, but he's really a total softie. (And
possibly a good catch for Izzy!) David, Olivia and Albert
(brother, mom, and dad) are conducting themselves as
normally as any slightly odd person might... or more to the
point like any Spellman might. Rae is a your typical teen
who just happens to be very bright and she's willing to use
these smarts to accomplish whatever she puts her mind to.
Is it really anyone's fault that her unusual family has
given her unusual tools with which to employ her
intelligence?
A great story with lively dialogue and characters you'll
want to read about again and again and again.
Their first caper, The Spellman
Files, was a New York Times 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 sidesplittingly 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 Curse of
the Spellmans 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.
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