Curse of the Spellmans
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4.3 • 51 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
In this sidesplittingly funny follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Spellman Files, San Francisco’s own highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators are back on the case in another mystery full of suspicion, surveillance, humor, and surprise from award-winning author Lisa Lutz.
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.
Lisa Lutz brings her trademark wit and humor back in what Publishers Weekly calls a “sparkling sequel.” (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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the two years that have passed since the action in Lutz's hit debut, The Spellman Files (2007), zany Isabel Spellman, who works for the family PI firm in San Francisco, has become "a somewhat responsible member of society." Unfortunately, she's also become obsessed with "Subject" (aka John Brown), a next-door neighbor who she's convinced has an evil secret she must expose, even if it means losing her PI license. Adding further hilarity is "The Stone and Spellman Show," transcripts of recordings revealing 15-year-old sister Rae's fascination with her middle-aged "best friend," stoic SFPD inspector Henry Stone, who endures Rae's adoration with liberal doses of Doctor Who watching. Henry's link to the Spellman family's fortunes suggests he might be a good candidate for Isabel's "Ex-boyfriend #11" when Subject fails to make the grade. Fans of The Spellman Files will laugh just as loudly at the comic antics chronicled in this sparkling sequel.
Customer Reviews
For Pete's sake...
First of all, people need to please stop punishing authors with 1 star reviews for formatting issues. Second, just tap the number of the footnote and it links you to the note, then tap the lower left part of the screen to go back to the main text. It isn't rocket science, and there is even a "footnote instruction manual" right at the beginning of the ebook version that covers ALL ebook formats.
These books are funny, cover some very deep dysfunctional family stuff without being depressing, and present intriguing mysteries without being excessively violent and bloody. Superb characters and wickedly smart humor that ranges from subtle to unapologetically goofy. I just want to know how I managed to go so long without hearing about this series, because they are right up my snarky and dysfunctional alley.
A little disappointed
This just seemed like too much of the same. The characters did not develop much beyond the first book in the series and the story could have been a brief addition to the first book. If the others are like this I don’t think I will be buying more.
Curse of the Spellmans
Book is great but iBooks format is problematic. Ms.Lutz uses footnotes to further explain her story and they are not visible in the iBooks format. Pretty frustrating!