Lisa Lutz

"Dave, acabo de terminar el primer capítulo de una novela, una nueva novela de crimen real con un cuerpo muerto y todo, y pensé en ti ..." Pablo y Hansen Lacey se pot-cada vez más, los hermanos veinteañeros comparten un caminante modesto de una casa en la zona rural norte de California. Cuando encuentran un cadáver decapitado en su propiedad que no es exactamente puede llamar al 911, por lo que basta con mover el cuerpo a otro lugar. Que alguien lo encuentre. En cambio, el cuerpo vuelve a aparecer en sus tierras. Es evidente que alguien les está enviando un mensaje, y es cada vez más madura día a día. Pero eso es sólo la mitad de la historia ... Introduzca los autores Lisa Lutz y David Hayward, ex-socios de la vida real (profesional y personalmente) que han accedido a reunirse para una novela de misterio etiqueta de equipo por escrito en la alternancia de capítulos. Un pequeño problema: no están de acuerdo en casi todos los detalles de cómo su novela debe desarrollarse. Mientras que el número de muertos se eleva en el salvaje mundo de ficción impredecible Pablo y Lacey, también lo hace la intensidad de la rivalidad entre Lisa y David. El resultado es una pelea literaria como ninguna otra, y una novela de misterio casi tan inesperado (y sangriento).

Izzy Spellman is 28, single, lives in the attic of her parents'' San Francisco home, and works for Spellman Investigations - a family-run business specialising in surveillance, tactical vehicular pursuit, artful coercion and what might be unkindly termed a general invasion of privacy. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman, tail a Spellman, dig up dirt on, blackmail and wiretap a Spellman. Nobody''s safe - not Izzy''s beautiful mother, not her ex-cop father, not her perfect older brother, not her wildly determined younger sister, not her dissolute uncle. And certainly not Izzy. Still, it takes a special transgression to make Izzy want to quit the business, and an equally special arrangement before her parents will release her from her contract. Suspenseful, sharply funny and achingly bitter-sweet, THE SPELLMAN FILES explores the agonising and hilarious dilemmas of a 28-year-old daughter trying to break free of a family with more than the usual means of sabotage at their disposal.

Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to "Get Smart" reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she''s good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family''s firm, Spellman Investigations. Invading people''s privacy comes naturally to Izzy. In fact, it comes naturally to all the Spellmans. If only they could leave their work at the office. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail, and wiretap a Spellman. Part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry, Izzy walks an indistinguishable line between Spellman family member and Spellman employee. Duties include: completing assignments from the bosses, aka Mom and Dad (preferably without scrutiny); appeasing her chronically perfect lawyer brother (often under duress); setting an example for her fourteen-year-old sister, Rae (who''s become addicted to "recreational surveillance"); and tracking down her uncle (who randomly disappears on benders dubbed "Lost Weekends"). But when Izzy''s parents hire Rae to follow her (for the purpose of ascertaining the identity of Izzy''s new boyfriend), Izzy snaps and decides that the only way she will ever be normal is if she gets out of the family business. But there''s a hitch: she must take one last job before they''ll let her go -- a fifteen-year-old, ice-cold missing person case. She accepts, only to experience a disappearance far closer to home, which becomes the most important case of her life. "The Spellman Files" is the first novel in a winning andhilarious new series featuring the Spellman family in all its lovable chaos.

Qui pourrait résister aux Spellman, la famille la plus sérieusement fêlée de la côte Ouest ? Certainement pas leur fille, Izzy, associée et néanmoins suspecte. Car, pour ces détectives-nés, rien n''e

anya DuBois doesn't exist. At least not after an accident leaves her husband dead and makes her Suspect No. 1. She has one choice: Run. Tanya isn't real, and neither is Amelia Keen, Debra Maze, or any of her other aliases. She is Amelia when she meets Blue, another woman with a life she'd rather not discuss, and thinks she's found her kindred spirit. But their pasts and futures clash as the body count rises around them...

Tanya DuBois doesnt exist. At least not after an accident leaves her husband dead and makes her Suspect No. 1. She has one choice: Run. Tanya isnt real, and neither is Amelia Keen, Debra Maze, or any of her other aliases. She is "Amelia" when she meets Blue, another woman with a life shed rather not discuss, and thinks shes found her kindred spirit. But their pasts and futures clash as the body count rises around them...

This lighthearted romp, focusing on the antics of Isabel Spellman and her family of private detectives, is delightful. There's not much vocal variation by Ari Graynor for the mystery's female characters: 30-year-old Isabel sounds exactly like her teen sister and her mother. But Graynor shines portraying some of the male characters, like Morty, the Spellmans' elderly lawyer, or Isabel's slurring, cigar-smoking roommate. Isabel digitally records conversations, and Graynor recites them back in a hilarious deadpan rendition. Lutz's first outing (The Spellman Files) was fresh, funny and unwieldy; her plotting skills take a leap forward here, masterfully juggling several compelling mystery threads at a time. The quirky Spellman family is still fun, and Graynor's sardonic and sly delivery doesn't attempt to upstage the writing. One disappointment is that S&S didn't release an unabridged version.

Tanya DuBois doesn't exist. At least not after an accident leaves her husband dead and makes her Suspect No. 1. She has one choice: Run. Tanya isn't real, and neither is Amelia Keen, Debra Maze, or any of her other aliases. She is Amelia when she meets Blue, another woman with a life she'd rather not discuss, and thinks she's found her kindred spirit. But their pasts and futures clash as the body count rises around them...

A gripping psychological thriller on the bonds of friendship and the cost of breaking them, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files.Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why werent they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead?Owen Mann is charming, privileged and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they begin forming a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisibleOwen and Luna, Luna and Owenand stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle.Years later, theyre still best friends when Luna finds Owens wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds some light on long-hidden secrets, but it cant penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret shes spent her whole life burying.

A blistering, timely tale of revenge from the bestselling author of The PassengerGIRLS WILL BE GIRLSWhat do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt to her students at Stonebridge Academy. When their answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows theres more going on at the school than anyone will admit. She finds the few girls whove started to question the schools boys will be boys attitude and incites a resistance that quickly becomes a movement. As the schools secrets begin to trickle out, the skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal and potentially fatal consequences for everyone involved.

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