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Trail of the Spellmans (Document #5)

May 7, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Things in the Spellman family / at Spellman Investigations have reached a sort of (relative) status quo.  Of course, that’s obviously too good to be true and, before long, the family is up to its usual shenanigans – but nobody is getting any younger and the question arises: what, exactly, does Izzy Spellman want out of her life? The Review: It feels like an eternity since I last read a proper Spellman novel.  I suppose it is, […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Document #5, Fiction, Izzy Spellman, Lisa Lutz, Mystery, The Spellman Files, Trail of the Spellmans

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heads you lose

Heads You Lose

April 21, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: Brother and sister pot-growers Paul and Lacey Hansen find a headless corpse on their property.  After disposing of the body, it shows up again two days later – and they get drawn into a mystery that consumes their whole town.  No one is who they seem and the plot is… well… unpredictable.  Meanwhile, former couple Lisa Lutz and David Hayward are writing the novel in alternating chapters… and they don’t entirely agree with each other’s methods.  Hence the […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Collaborative, Crime, David Hayward, Fiction, Heads You Lose, Lisa Lutz, Mystery

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The Spellmans Strike Again

The Spellmans Strike Again

June 2, 2010 by Drew

Working at Swartz Campbell automatically means a Spellman book.  I mean, I read the first one over Christmas my freshman year – but I had no idea there was a sequel until I was on a lunch break at SC sophomore year… and the rest, as they say, is history.  Originally I’d heard this was going to be the last in the series – and then Lisa Lutz gave an interview where she said that was all a lie and […]

Categories: Cannonball Read II, Fiction, Literary Challenges • Tags: Book #47, Cannonball Read II, Fiction, Izzy Spellman, Lisa Lutz, Mystery, The Spellmans Strike Again

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