The Accomplice
The Swallows
When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she’s hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative writing assignments generates some disturbing responses from students. Before long, Alex is immersed in an investigation of the students atop the school’s social hierarchy—and their connection to something called the Darkroom. She […]
How to Start a Fire
Publishers Weekly ★ 03/23/2015 Bestselling author Lutz (the Spellman Files series) hits a home run in this glorious exploration of friendship, which follows the trajectory of three college friends over 20 years. First there’s Kate Smirnoff (yes, “like the vodka,†she proclaims) raised by her grandfather after her parents’ accidental death when she was eight, […]
Trail of the Spellmans : Document #5
Publishers Weekly Three cases, all surveillance operations, start out routinely enough but prove anything but in Lutz’s engaging fifth novel featuring San Francisco PI Isabel “Izzy†Spellman and her eccentric family of investigators (after 2010’s The Spellmans Strike Again). A wife wants her husband followed; a brother wants his sister observed; and parents hire the […]
Heads You Lose
Library Journal Lutz, who gave us the insanely funny and popular Spellman series, launches a new one starring an offbeat brother-and-sister team who seem to work harder at battling each other than they do at solving a murder. No, Lutz still can't stay away from the whole family thing. Coauthor Hayward isn't family, though he […]
The Spellmans Strike Again
Library Journal The zany Spellmans are back, but, sadly, this fourth series entry (after Revenge of the Spellmans) is the final chapter. Now that her parents are older, Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, age 32, has agreed to head up Spellman Investigations. She is also dating boyfriend number 12, an Irish bartender. Even so, Mother Olivia, determined […]
Revenge of the Spellmans
Shelley Mosley – Library Journal: Those crazy Spellmans return, in all their serendipitous glory, in this third series entry (after The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans). Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is in court-ordered therapy following her obsessive behavior and stalking to prove that their law-abiding neighbor was a criminal, and Izzy's private investigator parents […]
Curse of the Spellmans
Publishers Weekly: In the two years that have passed since the action in Lutz's hit debut, The Spellman Files(2007), zany Isabel Spellman, who works for the family PI firm in San Francisco, has become "a somewhat responsible member of society." Unfortunately, she's also become obsessed with "Subject" (aka John Brown), a next-door neighbor who she's […]
The Spellman Files
Publisher Weekly Review: 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 […]