Lisa Lutz

 

 

  

 

San Francisco, Lisa Lutz’s home town, is the setting for her stories. Reading the books is almost like taking a quick trip to the city by the bay.  The Spellman family runs a Private Investigation business out of their Victorian style home, they are a well meaning crew but apt to be a bit removed from normal. The parents figure the best way to keep up with their kids is to bug their rooms and tail their cars. It makes their middle child, Izzy, crazy.  She expends a formidable amount of energy acting up. David, the oldest child, seems to have come through unscarred; he is a successful, conservative attorney not at all prone to breaking the law. Rae, at 15, is a natural, tailing random people just to sharpen her skills. Rae might be a bit obsessive. She gets a dose of normal from Inspector Henry Stone; the long suffering cop lets her do homework in his office and tries to inspire her toward a more conventional life.   

The Spellmans Strike Again (Hardcover)

By Lisa Lutz
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ISBN-13: 9781416593409
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 3/2010
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Splendidly quirky, the Spellman clan is recklessly charging through life with the vigor and finesse of a bull in a porcelain shop.  Breakage is always a possibility.  Izzy wonders why her parent’s San Francisco house is starting to shed its parts, door handles, light fixtures, all oddly disappearing.  Teenage Rae is coloring way outside the lines, busily blackmailing her family and getting herself into heaps of trouble.  All your favorite suspects are right in the thick of things.  I

Revenge of the Spellmans: Document #3 (Paperback)

By Lisa Lutz
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ISBN-13: 9781416593393
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 2/2010
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Izzy is not sure she wants to rejoin the family business.  She has doubts she is cut out to be a detective, her last case left her wondering if she might be just a tad bit obsessive or lacking in commons sense.  Oh and she does have that pesky court ordered therapy to finish.  Milo asks (insists) she help his friend Ernie find out if his wife is cheating.  Izzy isn’t too fond of cheating wife cases, but she figures she needs to test herself and solve a case before deciding to jump back into the game.  Izzy’s Mom and Dad want her to take over the family detective agency, she is getting a high dose of parental pressure.  If you like to laugh, pick up any of Lisa Lutz’s books.  Izzy is a delightful character and the book is positively brimming with other likeable, quirky, characters.  All the usual gang is here, Rae is still bugging Henry, David is hiding secrets, Henry is trying to have a love life. Lisa Lutz writes with such intense vitality her books are a real treat. Enjoy yourself, dive into  Revenge of the Spellmans.    

Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2 (Paperback)

By Lisa Lutz
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ISBN-13: 9781416532422
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 2/2009
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Curse of the Spellmans has Izzy moving back home after she is stuck with a middle aged, card playing cigar smoking, and lovelorn roommate.  The guy she sublet her apartment from has met with a romantic reversal and needs to move back into his place.  Izzy can’t tolerate the all night card games, smoke haze, and crying over lost love.  She is pleased to observe her parent’s have a new neighbor who is easy on the eyes.  Izzy starts making plans to add him to her list of former boyfriends but she becomes convinced he is up to no good when she finds a locked room in his home, kicking her sleuthing skills into high gear.  Izzy doesn’t relate well to locked rooms. Clearly the dude is up to something nefarious and Izzy is just the woman to put a stop to him. Her plans immediately switch from romance to stalking the guy.  Little sister Rae has not been idle either; she has badgered Inspector Stone to give her driving lessons.  He should have known better.  Rae accidentally runs over Henry then haunts his hospital room in fits of remorse until she is dragged away by Izzy.   As Izzy’s obsession with her parent’s hunky neighbor spirals out of control, Rae and Henry are right in the thick of things too.    

The Spellman Files: Document #1 (Paperback)

By Lisa Lutz
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781416532408
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 2/2008
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