The Spellman Files

Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns - but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm. Invading people's privacy 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. Duties include: completing assignments from the bosses, aka Mom and Dad; appeasing her chronically perfect lawyer brother; setting an example for her fourteen-year-old sister, Rae; and tracking down her uncle. 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. . . .