YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIFE WAS COMPLICATED
Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the
couch--in courtordered therapy after getting a little too close to her
previous subject. As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman
Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours
and introduces her to a "friend" looking for a private eye, Izzy
reluctantly finds herself with a new client. She assures herself that
the case--a suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed--will be short
and sweet, and will involve nothing more than the most boring of PI
rituals: surveillance. But with each passing hour, Izzy finds herself
with more questions than hard evidence.
Meanwhile, Spellmania continues. Izzy's brother, David, the family's
most upright member, has adopted an uncharacteristically unkempt
appearance and attitude toward work, life, and Izzy. And their wayward
youngest sister, Rae, a historic academic underachiever, aces the PSATs
and subsequently offends her study partner and object of obsession,
Detective Henry Stone, to the point of excommunication. The only
unsurprising behavior comes from her parents, whose visits to Milo's bar
amount to thinly veiled surveillance and artful attempts (read:
blackmail) at getting Izzy to return to the Spellman Inc. fold.
As the case of the wayward wife continues to vex her, Izzy's personal
life--and mental health-- seem to be disintegrating. Facing a housing
crisis, she can't sleep, she can't remember where she parked her car,
and, despite her shrinks'* persistence, she can't seem to break
through in her appointments. She certainly can't explain whyshe forgets
dates with her lawyer's grandson, orfails to interpret the come-ons
issued in an Irishbrogue by Milo's new bartender. Nor can sheexplain
exactly how she feels about DetectiveHenry Stone and his plans to move
in with hisnew Assistant DA girlfriend . . .
Filled with the signature side-splitting Spellmanantics, Revenge of the
Spellmans is aningenious, hilarious, and disarmingly tender installment
in the Spellman series.
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* Yes, plural
