{"id":6896,"date":"2010-05-21T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2010-05-15T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T22:07:00","slug":"read-everything-janet-evanovich-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/read-everything-janet-evanovich-wrote\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Everything Janet Evanovich Wrote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1064420\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6923\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Spellman-Files.jpg?resize=192%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Spellman-Files.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Spellman-Files.jpg?w=415&amp;ssl=1 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Then you may very well enjoy Lisa Lutz&#8217;s series about the nutty, but lovable Spellman family. Unfortunately, there are only\u00a0four books\u00a0in this series.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1064420\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0Spellman Files<\/a><\/em><\/strong> introduces us to Isabel, the narrator, her incorrigible younger sister Rae, her parents, or &#8220;the Units&#8221; as she calls them, who run the family business. Because that is a private investigation firm, they spend much of their free time spying on each other &#8211; literally making secret tape recordings.<\/p>\n<p>The series is written in the style of reports for a client, complete with footnotes, \u00a0(Isabel calls each book a &#8220;document.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Isabel, like Stephanie, has many personal issues. Rather than eating too much junk food, Isabel drinks too much. She has a hard time with commitment and, though she loves her family, \u00a0they also drive\u00a0 her nuts.<\/p>\n<p>She has a cast of eccentric friends that recur in each book. Petra, a hair stylist and Isabel&#8217;s best\u00a0friend from high school, Morty, an octogenarian lawyer who tries to keep Isabel out of jail, and Henry Stone, a police detective, though normal himself, albeit exceptionally neat and healthy, gets ensnared by the Spellmans.<\/p>\n<p>As will you,the reader&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then you may very well enjoy Lisa Lutz&#8217;s series about the nutty, but lovable Spellman family. Unfortunately, there are only\u00a0four books\u00a0in this series. The\u00a0Spellman Files introduces us to Isabel, the narrator, her incorrigible younger sister Rae, her parents, or &#8220;the Units&#8221; as she calls them, who run the family business.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/read-everything-janet-evanovich-wrote\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[476,333,1203],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-family-drama","tag-mystery","tag-spying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1Ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}