Through the award-winning author of The Passenger comes the first book in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series offering Isabel “Izzy” Spellman (component Nancy Drew, component Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional category of private investigators.

Match Isabel “Izzy” Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may possess a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she could be addicted to Obtain Wise reruns and about Spellman Files prefer getting into homes through windows instead of doors-but the upshot is definitely she’s proficient at her job as a licensed detective agency with her family’s company, Spellman Investigations. Invading people’s personal 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 always a Spellman is definitely to snoop on the Spellman; tail a Spellman; find out dirt on, blackmail, and wiretap a Spellman.

Izzy walks an indistinguishable line between Spellman family member and Spellman worker. Duties consist of: completing assignments from your bosses, aka Mom and Dad (preferably without scrutiny); appeasing her chronically perfect lawyer sibling (often under duress); placing an example for her fourteen-year-old sister, Rae (who’s become dependent on “recreational security”); and tracking down her uncle (who arbitrarily disappears on benders dubbed “Lost Weekends”). However when Izzy’s parents hire Rae to follow her (for the intended purpose of ascertaining the identification of Izzy’s fresh sweetheart), Izzy snaps and decides that the only way she will ever be normal can be if she gets from the family members business. But there’s a hitch: she must take one last work before they’ll let her go-a fifteen-year-old, ice-cold missing person case. She accepts, only to encounter a disappearance significantly closer to house, which becomes the main case of her life.