The Spellman Files - Couverture souple

'Cue fanfare . . . Just when you thought you might drown in the quagmire of yummy-mummy chick-lit, along pops a truly great read that doesn't involve anything 'ummy' at all . . . Smart, sassy and thoroughly readable, THE SPELLMAN FILES is just what the literary doctor ordered' HEAT
'An addictively entertaining read' GLAMOUR
'Lisa Lutz has put her two-year stint as a private investigator to inspired use in her first novel. Fast-paced and funny' DAILY MAIL
'Very funny but sometimes surprisingly touching and never played entirely for laughs' THE TIMES
':utz's writing is deliciously witty' COSMOPOLITAN
'Elmore Leonard meets Helen Fielding in this hilarious take on the hapless world of 28-year-old private investigator Izzy Spellman' DAILY MIRROR
'Hilarious' DAILY EXPRESS
'The author has perfectly bottled the essence of striving to break free of family ties and expectations and making a life for yourself' WOMAN
'A fresh, fun page-turner' HEAT
'Part Bridget Jones, part Colombo, Lisa Lutz's resilient PI, Isabel Spellman emerges as a thoroughly unusual heroine in her delightful, droll debut novel ... Lutz keeps the plot dashing along and the reader hooked on her weirdly lovable snoops' USA TODAY
'Laugh-out-loud stuff' CLOSER
‘Hilarious look at a dysfunctional family. Izzy Spellman, 28, works for her parents’ detective agency. The Spellmans constantly pry into each other’s private lives. Izzy is infuriated when mum and dad order 14-year-old sister Rae to discover the identity of her new boyfriend. She’s had enough but to quit she must solve one last case. Then Rae disappears’
Daily Express 6/4
A family saga, this is very funny but sometimes surprisingly touching and never played entirely for laughs’
The Times 14/4
‘Elmore Leonard meets Helen Fielding in this hilarious take on the hapless world of 28-year-old private investigator Izzy Spellman’
Daily Mirror 30/3
‘It’s customary for wannabe authors to tout eccentric job histories, but Lisa Lutz has put her stint as a private investigator to inspired use in her first novel. Fast-paced and funny’
Daily Mail 30/3
‘Smart, sassy and thoroughly readable, The Spellman Files is just what the doctor ordered’
5 stars, Heat 7/4
‘You must take special note of this wonderful romp, it is such a hoot; clever different, highly contagious – an absolute gem ... it’s part thriller, part family drama and all a pure delight' Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller

Meet the Spellmans - the family that puts the fun in dysfunctional
Izzy Spellman is 28, single and works for Spellman Investigations, a family-run private detective agency. She might have a chequered past littered with romantic mistakes - but at least she's good at her job. Invading people's privacy comes naturally. To the whole family. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail and wiretap a Spellman.
But when Izzy's parents hire her 14-year-old sister to discover the identity of her new boyfriend, Izzy decides it's gone too far. She wants out. Before they'll let her go, her parents ask her to solve one last case - a 15-year-old, ice-cold, missing person, impossible-to-solve case.
But when a disappearance occurs far closer to home, Izzy's Impossible Case becomes the most important of her life . . .
Deliciously witty, wildly inventive and laugh-out-loud funny, The Spellman Files explores the agonizing and hilarious dilemmas of a 28-year-old daughter trying to break free of a family with more than the usual means of sabotage at its disposal.
'Hilarious, outrageous and hip. I loved it' ADRIANA TRIGIANI
'Fast-paced, irreverent and very funny' CURTIS SITTENFELD