The Spellmans Strike Back by Lisa Lutz (fourth in the series). 388 p.
If you haven't run into the Spellman books before, they're a delight (and a very fast read). The Spellmans are a hugely dysfunctional family of private eyes--2 parents, 3 children--who continually spy on, and blackmail, one another. They are also very, very funny. Isabel, our narrator, is the middle child. By the end of this book, she's actually experienced something close to character growth, and the family has stabilized (a bit) into something not quite as dyfunctional as they were in the first book. Rumor has it that this is the last Spellman book; I hope that's true, because the characters have evolved and I'd hate to see this series go the way of the Janet Evanovich "numbers" books where the author makes sure absolutely nothing in the way of character or situation development happens so that she can sell a new book or two every year.
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