Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellman Files, is back with another story of the shenanigans of the Spellman family: The Curse of the Spellmans. The "parental unit" started a private investigation business when Dad retired from police work. His wife assists him and their two daughters, Isabel, (Izzy) a 30-year-old with a habit of being arrested, and Rae, a 15-year-old Cheetos-loving teen, would like to think that they help out in the family business. Especially where Izzy is concerned, this is a stretch. Brother David is a successful attorney who has nothing to do with the family enterprise. He has troubles of his own. Izzy has been living in the apartment of a friend while he is away. When he returns unexpectedly, it quickly becomes clear that being roommates with an old, cigar-smoking, poker-playing, big drinker isn't going to work. Izzy moves home temporarily and then the fun begins. She decides that their new next door neighbor, John Brown, whose landscape gardening business she judges to be a cover, is somehow making women disappear. She gets herself invited to dinner, discovers a locked room, believes his name is phony, follows him everywhere, has a restraining order against her, and still she can't let it go. Meanwhile, Rae has befriended a great guy, a cop named Henry Stone, who is almost too good to be true. The reader starts pulling for him and Izzy to get together right away, even though he doesn't deserve the aggravation. Lutz keeps the ball rolling faster and faster with David's problems, her parents' frequent vacations, which they refer to as "disappearances," and the fact that everyone in the family has secrets from one another. If there is any curse at work here, it is that all the family members are terminally nosy. What they discover about each other and the other players keeps you turning pages and hoping that Lutz is hard at work on the next installment of this zany family's misadventures.
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Lisa Lutz
Lisa Lutz cresceu no sul da Califórnia. Após terminar o ensino médio, frequentou UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, University of Leeds, na Inglaterra e San Francisco State University, embora ela ainda não tem um grau de bacharel. Lisa passou a maior parte da década de 1990 pulando de uma série de empregos mal remunerados e estranhos, enquanto escrevia e reescrevia uma comédia mob chamada Plano B. Depois que ele foi feito em 2000, Lisa jurou que nunca iria escrever outro roteiro. Ela começou a trabalhar nos arquivos Spellman em janeiro de 2004. No outono do mesmo ano, ela atravessou todo o país e se mudou para uma casa de 200 anos de idade na cidade de Westernville, New York (pop. 300). Foi lá Lisa escreveu a maior parte do seu primeiro romance. Após meses em seu Westernville, Lisa se mudou de Los Angeles a San Francisco para Seattle, onde permaneceu por um tempo para escrever Curse of the Spellmans. Ela retornou recentemente a San Francisco e prometeu seus amigos e familiares que não terá que atualizar sua entrada em seus livros de endereço novamente por um longo tempo.