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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

“Revenge of the Spellmans”                               by Lisa Lutz

Review #59

Those crazy Spellmans return, in all their glory. (See Review #55)
This is the third Spellman adventure in the series.

San Francisco PI, Isabel "Izzy" Spellman…amongst other things…endures court-ordered therapy sessions (for stalking the Spellman’s law-abiding neighbor to prove he is a criminal); helps her elderly lawyer friend, Mort Schilling, accept his upcoming move to Florida; and mourns the loss of her bartending job.



Albert and Olivia Spellman, Izzy's parents, want her to return to work for the family PI firm. Otherwise, they may have to sell it. While Izzy contemplates their offer, she moves into her brother, David's, basement guest apartment (unbeknownst to him) and begins to ponder the suspicious behavior of her straitlaced, type-A, lawyer brother, who has traded his Brooks Brothers suits for a bathrobe and taken to calling in sick to work

Izzy also looks into the life of Linda Black, whose husband, Ernie, is certain she is cheating on him and… Izzy must once again contend with Rae, her troublemaking, Twizzler-chomping teenage sister, who's been relocating Izzy's car to various spots around the city. (Izzy has enough trouble finding her wheels when she parks them herself.)

Once again, I found myself laughing out loud at this family's antics!

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