Izzy Spellman is looking to get back into the detective game when a man hires her to see what his wife is up to. Meanwhile, what is with her brother David? Who is blackmailing Izzy? Why is her car never where she left it? And did Rae really cheat on the PSATs? All these questions and more wi...
I was disappointed in this book. while we have seen Izzy make some growth in the previous books.It seems like she sweep all that away and went back to her childish behavior once again. it was disappointed to see relationship wise she has not really grown at all. however when it comes to the famil...
Possible spoilers. Je n'aurais jamais cru mettre 2 étoiles à un Spellman, et pourtant.J'ai trouvé ce tome beaucoup moins drôle que les précédents, limite déprimants à certains moments, et je n'ai pas du tout adhéré à l'évolution de certains personnages.J'ai trouvé l'évolution de David ridicule, H...
One of my favorite sayings--and that I rarely get to use--is that someone is "too clever by half." It's so snarky and such a backhanded little insult that I love it! But it's hard to use in everyday conversation. So I was sort of delighted to be able to apply that phrase to this shitty book. (I w...
Isabel Spellman, the new Stephanie Plum, is a 28-year-old single woman from a dysfunctional family. That in and of itself is not unusual, but the particular form her family’s dysfunction takes is quite different – the family business is a private detective firm and snooping and blackmailing each...
THEY'RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny...
Kate climbed the stairs from the basement and peered through the peephole. A man stood in front of the door, eyes cast downward. She could see only the thick wavy hair surrounding a bald spot at the top of his head. “Who’s there?” Kate asked. Russell lifted his head and answered, “Detective Russe...
There are times when clients need more than data. I, Rae Spellman (hereafter referred to as the CRS), want to offer clients an alternative beyond the reaches of your average private investigator, a full-service operation, if you will. As an investigator, I grew tired of pa...
Being landlocked, the kids had never heard of any of the Sea World stars, so they named me after the only famous fish they could think of. It beat Shamu. The local rag gave it all a small write-up. I generally avoided having my picture taken, but one of my colleagues managed to capture from a dis...
Paul stared at the flames in the fireplace in stony silence.“Paul,” Lacey said. “Are you all right?”“Check the grow room,” he replied without turning away from the flames.Lacey headed down to the basement, opened the door, and was blinded by the glare of the lights. Once her eyes adjusted, she re...