Curse of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz
Curse of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz
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Curse of the Spellmans

Author: Lisa Lutz

Narrator: Ari Graynor

Abridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2008


Synopsis

In this sidesplittingly funny follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Spellman Files, San Francisco’s own highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators are back on the case in another mystery full of suspicion, surveillance, humor, and surprise from award-winning author Lisa Lutz.

When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. She’s been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspect’s name: John Brown), convinced he’s up to no good—even if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not.

When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out, it is Morty, Izzy’s octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defense, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and diner sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth—as only she, a thirty-year-old licensed professional, can.

When not compiling Suspicious Behavior Reports on all her family members, staking out her neighbor, or trying to keep her sister, Rae, from stalking her “best friend,” Inspector Henry Stone, Izzy has been busy attempting to apprehend the copycat vandal whose attacks on Mrs. Chandler’s holiday lawn tableaux perfectly and eerily match a series of crimes from 1991–92, when Izzy and her best friend, Petra, happened to be at their most rebellious and delinquent. As Curse of the Spellmans unfolds, it’s clear that Morty may be on retainer, but Izzy is still very much on the case...er, cases—her own and that of every other Spellman family member.

Lisa Lutz brings her trademark wit and humor back in what Publishers Weekly calls a “sparkling sequel.” (Re)meet the Spellmans, a family in which eavesdropping is a mandatory skill, locks are meant to be picked, past missteps are never forgotten, and blackmail is the preferred form of negotiation—all in the name of unconditional love.

About Lisa Lutz

Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling, Alex Award–winning author of the Spellman Files series, as well as the novels The Accomplice, Heads You Lose (with David Hayward), How to Start a Fire, The Passenger, and The Swallows. She has also written for film and TV, including HBO’s The Deuce. She lives in upstate New York.

About Ari Graynor

Ari Graynor starred in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, as well as the films The Front Runner and The Disaster Artist. Other film credits include For a Good Time CallNick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and The Sitter, among others. Extensive theater work includes Brooklyn BoyThe Little Dog Laughed, and Yen, for which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on March 15, 2022

3.5 stars In this 2nd book in 'The Spellmans' cozy mystery series, Izzy Spellman investigates a neighbor. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** Thirty-year-old Isabel (Izzy) Spellman - as well as her mom, dad, and teenage sister Rae - all work for the family private detective business. Spying see......more

Goodreads review by Katie on September 27, 2020

4.5 stars I'm really enjoying my reread of the Spellman series. Curse of the Spellmans is the second book in the series and has a lot of crazy shenanigans, but it also has heart. While I liked Izzy Spellman from the get go, this is the book that made me fall in love with the rest of the family as wel......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on March 23, 2012

So how can something be so good and coherent and yet be so random and rambling? I don't mean random in a negative way at all. In fact, I find the randomness quite charming, just as I find Isabel Spellman quite charming and funny. Izzy and the entire Spellman clan are a bunch of nut cases, but the st......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on April 15, 2019

When the Spellman family gets a new neighbor, Isabel Spellman cannot shake the feeling that something is off about him. Maybe it’s his all too common name of John Brown? Is it his office door that he constantly keeps locked? Or maybe it’s the fact that privacy and trust is something that is rarely p......more

Goodreads review by AdiTurbo on June 01, 2016

So much fun! The Spellman dysfunctional and quite crazy family always manage to make me laugh, and this time, Lutz had them also go through life changes that developed the characters in an interesting ways. The plot is suspenseful, the dialogues superb - here is a writer who can write a teenager who......more