β Scribed by Lisa Lutz
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this sidesplittingly funny follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Spellman Files, San Franciscoβs 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. Curse of the Spellmans was nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award, and the Izzy Spellman Mysteries have earned comparisons to everything from Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich to Veronica Mars and Bridget Jones.
When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. Sheβs been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspectβs name: John Brown), convinced heβs up to no goodβeven if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not.
When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out,...
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