'Harriet The Spy' meets 'Sex And The City' in this rollicking true story of a mild-mannered editorial assistant's transformation into an intrepid private eye.
All Amy Gray ever wanted to be was a spy: Nancy Drew, Agent 99 from 'Get Smart', one of Charlie's Angels, Velma from 'Scooby Doo' - someone who gets paid to skulk around buildings and bust the bad guy.
So, bored with her job as a lowly editorial assistant she decided to make her dream come true - and took a job as a private investigator at a New York agency. In her gang of misfit colleagues (a former zookeeper, one-time child star, an avant-garde philosopher, and a part-time male stripper), Amy discovers even more about herself than the people she is paid to investigate.
Amy tells what it is like to work in a man's world; she describes the "initiation" new gumshoes are put through; the unique dynamics of her workplace (do you really want to fight over the last biscuit with someone who's carrying a gun?) and what happens when her personal and private lives collide.
Amy also explores the moral and emotional conflicts of private eye work (what happens when you end up investigating someone you know? What if a loved one is implicated, however distantly, by what you find out?) and the sense of both camaraderie and loneliness the job of a private investigator entails.
'Spygirl' is also a chronicle of the real life adventures of a single girl in New York - trying to find a clean, cheap apartment, job satisfaction, and a boyfriend who isn't the kind of guy she should probably be investigating.
'Spygirl' has been optioned by Warner Bros for both a big screen film and a television series.
