David Spellman with Lisa Lutz, illus. by Jaime Temairik. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5119-3
“There are very few things in life that you can’t get if you ask for them in a rational manner and offer something in return,” asserts Lutz in this story derived from her Spellman books for adults. “Author” David Spellman is a lawyer in that series,
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Lisa Lutz, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (358p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3239-2
Cracking the case can get complicated and outrageously wacky when a family of detectives is involved, but Lutz has a blast doing it in her delicious debut. Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, a San Francisco PI who began working for Spellman...
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Lisa Lutz, Author , read by Ari Graynor. Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (
, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-6434-2
, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-6434-2
In a family of private investigators, privacy is nonexistent. The Spellman parents spy on the kids just as much as the kids spy on the parents. But after 28 years of this, middle child Isabelle wants out of the family business. Her parents agree,...
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Lisa Lutz, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (409p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3241-5
In the two years that have passed since the action in Lutz's hit debut, The Spellman Files
(2007), zany Isabel Spellman, who works for the family PI firm in San Francisco, has become “a somewhat responsible member of society.”...
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Lisa Lutz, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (375p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9338-6
San Francisco PI Isabel “Izzy” Spellman endures court-ordered therapy sessions as well as blackmail in Lutz's wacky crime novel, the third entry (after Curse of the Spellmans
) in a series that keeps getting better and better....
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Lisa Lutz, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (388p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9340-9
In Edgar-finalist Lutz's entertaining fourth and final novel about the eccentric Spellman PI clan (after Revenge of the Spellmans
), Isabel “Izzy” Spellman juggles the usual family drama—her mother tries to sabotage Izzy's
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Lisa Lutz. Simon & Schuster, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0812-0
Three cases, all surveillance operations, start out routinely enough but prove anything but in Lutz’s engaging fifth novel featuring San Francisco PI Isabel “Izzy” Spellman and her eccentric family of investigators (after 2010’s The Spellmans Strike
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Lisa Lutz. Simon & Schuster, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8666-1
Lutz delivers another rollicking good time in her sixth novel featuring the wacky San Francisco family of PIs (after 2012’s Trail of the Spellmans). Everyone in the Spellman clan is in an uproar because of Isabel’s hostile takeover of the firm. Izzy’
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Lisa Lutz. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-41163-0
Bestselling author Lutz (the Spellman Files series) hits a home run in this glorious exploration of friendship, which follows the trajectory of three college friends over 20 years. First there’s Kate Smirnoff (yes, “like the vodka,” she proclaims)...
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Lisa Lutz. Simon & Schuster, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8663-0
Tanya Dubois, the enigmatic heroine of this enjoyable standalone from Lutz (How to Start a Fire), is the unhappy wife of the deceased Frank Dubois, who took a fatal—and unassisted—header down the basement stairs of their Waterloo, Wis., home. Since...
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Lisa Lutz. Ballantine, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-1-984818-23-2
This sardonic standalone by the author of the Spellman Files mystery series takes no prisoners in its attack on the misogynist culture of a New England prep school in 2009. When 20-something Alex Witt, dismissed from her former teaching job under...
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Lisa Lutz. Ballantine, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1826-3
In 2002, gregarious Owen Mann and fiercely guarded (for good reason) Luna Grey, the protagonists of this darkly comic, fast-paced thriller from bestseller Lutz (The Swallows), immediately click as freshmen at Markham University, forming a profound,...
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Lisa Lutz and David Hayward, Putnam, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15740-0
In this experimental California improv, Lutz (The Spellman Files) writes odd-numbered chapters and footnoted barbs directed at her coauthor and ex-boyfriend, poet Hayward, whose even-numbered chapters and stiletto-sharp ripostes add a freaky...
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Lisa Lutz, Author, Ari Graynor, Read by , read by Ari Graynor. Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7126-5
This lighthearted romp, focusing on the antics of Isabel Spellman and her family of private detectives, is delightful. There's not much vocal variation by Ari Graynor for the mystery's female characters: 30-year-old Isabel sounds exactly...
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