The Spellman Files

By Lisa Lutz

Subjects: Fourteen-year-old girls, Humorous fiction, American Mystery fiction, Uncles, Dysfunctional families, Isabel Spellman (Fictitious character), Reading Level-Grade 12, Large type books, Private investigators, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Women detectives, Fiction, family life, Fiction, humorous, general, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Sisters, fiction, Sisters, Reading Level-Grade 10, Private investigators

Description: The first novel of a comic mystery series. 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.