Lutz, Lisa

"A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences"--OCLC.

"A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences"--OCLC.

While deciding if she should quit working for her family's private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking.

Changing her name and appearance to flee town after leaving her husband dead, Tanya Dubois forges an uneasy alliance off the grid at the side of a female bartender with whom she races from city to city to escape her past.

Izzy Spellman, an employee at her family's private investigation firm, becomes convinced that her neighbor is hiding a dark secret, and is willing to lose her license to find out what it is.

Targeted by the members of her dysfunctional family for control over Spellman Investigations after staging a retaliatory takeover, Izzy is wrongly accused of embezzling funds from a wealthy Alzheimer's patient.

Struggling with wacky family activities, secrets, and feuds, private investigator Isabel Spellman avoids Henry Stone by spending time drinking with his mother and tackling eccentric cases that seem suspiciously pointless.

Paul and Lacey Hansen, orphaned, twenty-something siblings running a marijuana farm in rural northern California, find a headless corpse in the field, and obviously unable to call police, decide to move the body only to have it show up again several days later and much worse for wear. Written in alternating chapters by former romantic partners Lisa Lutz and David Hayward, with notes they exchanged during the novel's development.

While deciding if she should quit working for her family's private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking.