2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

My library "book hunter" service recommended The Spellman Files to me when I asked for a book with a strong, funny heroine, "Like 'Stephanie Plum,' but not sucky." So, fingers crossed that it will be worth a chuckle or two.

Synopsis:
Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations.

Part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry, Izzy walks an indistinguishable line between Spellman family member and Spellman employee. Duties include: completing assignments from the bosses, aka Mom and Dad (preferably without scrutiny); appeasing her chronically perfect lawyer brother (often under duress); setting an example for her fourteen-year-old sister, Rae (who's become addicted to "recreational surveillance"); and tracking down her uncle (who randomly disappears on benders dubbed "Lost Weekends"). But when Izzy's parents hire Rae to follow her (for the purpose of ascertaining the identity of Izzy's new boyfriend), Izzy snaps and decides that the only way she will ever be normal is if she gets out of the family business. But there's a hitch: she must take one last job before they'll let her go -- a fifteen-year-old, ice-cold missing person case. She accepts, only to experience a disappearance far closer to home, which becomes the most important case of her life.