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When Rae suddenly disappears, Izzy and her family must learn some serious lessons in order to find her. At times the dialogue-heavy text reads like a script and the action flags, but these are quibbles. Now 28, Izzy thinks she wants out, but elects to take on a cold case while dealing with 14-year-old sister Rae, a nightmarish Nancy Drew, and parents who have no qualms about bugging their children's bedrooms. Her latest book, The Passenger, a psychological thriller, will be published March 2016 by Simon and Schuster. Available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, and Mass Market Paperback. (an ex-boyfriend's ownership of the complete bootlegged DVD set is his major selling point). Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling author of the six books in the Spellman series, How to Start a Fire, Heads you Lose (with David Hayward), and the childrens book, How to Negotiate Everything (illustrated by Jaime Temairik). In their family, investigating is both their business and their pastime. It has been followed by five more books featuring the Spellman family of San Francisco.

Isabel 'Izzy' Spellman, a San Francisco PI who began working for Spellman Investigations at age 12, could easily pass as Buffy or Veronica Mars's wiser but funnier older sister. If youre in the mood for a funny, clever, relaxing read, you might want to look at Lisa Lutzs first book in her Spellman Mystery series, 'The Spellman Files'. 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.

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz