The Spellman Files

This book turned up in my public library queue and I couldn't for the life of me remember requesting it. So I took it as a sign of kismet and brought it home.

It was an odd combination of coming-of-age, family drama, humor and mystery. The more I think about it, the more I think I enjoyed it. It surprised me by being both interesting and unusual. I'm trying not to give too much away and yet at the same time enticing other people to read it.

Suffice it to say, the Spellmans are a family of private investigators who take to spying on each other almost as frequently as they spy on their clients. Sort of puts the average dysfunctional family into perspective, doesn't it?