The Spellmans are back!  Again!  In the fifth installment of Lisa Lutz’ acclaimed series following a family of detectives, there is no shortage of suspicions and backstabbery (I don’t think this is a word, but I’m going to use it anyway).  This go-around, we have family members that are no longer on speaking terms and…

Following the conclusion of Revenge of The Spellmans, Izzy is on track to take over the family business but it won’t be an easy transition.  While change is on the horizon, the family is more the same than ever.  The “parental unit” is acting predictably strange in kicking everyone out of the home on Wednesdays.…

While on a self-imposed sabbatical from detective work, Izzy Spellman is approached by a man with a simple job offer – he wants to know if his wife is having an affair.  Although Izzy agrees to take the job, it becomes the least of her worries.  As always, there is something fishy going on with…

When the Spellman family gets a new neighbor, Isabel Spellman cannot shake the feeling that something is off about him.  Maybe it’s his all too common name of John Brown?  Is it his office door that he constantly keeps locked?  Or maybe it’s the fact that privacy and trust is something that is rarely present…

Between this year’s Canada Reads books and Don Winslow’s The Border, I spent the majority of the first quarter of 2019 reading some really heavy stuff.  So when I put down Lindsay Wong’s The Woo Woo last week, I perused my bookshelves for something fun and light.  I settled on Lisa Lutz’ The Spellman Files,…