The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz, . . Simon & Schuster, $25 (358pp) 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 Investigations at age 12, could easily pass as Buffy or Veronica Mars's wiser but funnier older sister. Izzy digs TV, too, especially
Reviewed on: 01/01/2007
Genre: Fiction
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