The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

From the award-winning author of The Passenger comes the first novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel Izzy Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators.

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.

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.

Lutz, Lisa: - Nee en 1970, Lisa Lutz revait de devenir scenariste. Elle entame en 1991 l'ecriture d'un script tout en travaillant pour gagner sa vie dans... une agence de detectives. Son scenario aboutira a un film (Plan B, sorti en 2001), mais Lisa Lutz, decue par l'experience, se jure de ne plus jamais travailler pour Hollywood. C'est en 2004 qu'elle entame la redaction de Spellman et associes, premier volet de la serie des Spellman, une famille de detectives prives.

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ISBN 13	9781416532408
ISBN 10	1416532404
Titre	The Spellman Files
Auteur	Lisa Lutz
Série	The Spellman
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Simon & Schuster
Année de publication	2008-02-01
Nombre de pages	384
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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