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The Spellman Files
A Novel  
By Lisa Lutz
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Izzy Spellman is 28, single and works for Spellman Investigations, a family-run private detective agency. She might have a chequered past littered with romantic mistakes - but at least she's good at her job. Invading people's privacy comes naturally. To the whole family. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail and wiretap a Spellman.

But when Izzy's parents hire her 14-year-old sister to discover the identity of her new boyfriend, Izzy decides she wants out. Before they'll let her go, her parents ask her to solve one last case - a 15-year-old, ice-cold, missing person, impossible-to-solve case. But when a disappearance occurs far closer to home, Izzy's Impossible Case becomes the most important of her life.

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"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
"Hilarious. My enjoyment of The Spellman Files was only slightly undercut by my irritation that I hadn't written it myself. The funniest book I've read in years!"
-- Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing
"The Spellman Files is hilarious, outrageous, and hip. Izzy Spellman, P.I., is a total original, with a voice so fresh and real, you want more, more, more. At long last, we know what Nancy Drew would have been like had she come from a family of lovable crackpots. Lisa Lutz has created a delicious comedy with skill and truth. I loved it."
-- Adriana Trigiani, author of Lucia, Lucia and Big Stone Gap
"A spirited, funny debut...a rush of humor and chaos...casual, swift, and hip...A fresh story that works real issues through an offbeat premise."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A fun and irreverent debut."
-- Entertainment Weekly
"Truly the funniest book I've read in years."
-- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
"She's part Bridget Jones, part Columbo. Lisa Lutz's resilient P.I. Isabel Spellman emerges as a thoroughly unusual heroine in her delightful, droll debut novel."
-- USA Today
"Irresistible.... Starts out funny and does not let up."
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Addictively entertaining."
-- Glamour
"Isabel Spellman...the love child of Dirty Harry and Harriet the Spy."
-- People
"Lutz is one smart-mouthed writer."
-- Daily News (NY)
Literary datebook | Aug. 9-15
KansasCity.com, August 8, 2009
...Park. Grades 9-12. www.jocolibrary.org/summerreading (913-495-2490) I LOVE A MYSTERY MURDER IN THE AFTERNOON READING GROUP: The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz. 1 p.m. Aug. 11, I Love a Mystery Bookstore, 6114 Johnson Drive, Mission. ...
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