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Also by Lisa Lutz:

The Accomplice, January 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Passenger, December 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Passenger, March 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Spellman Six, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Last Word, July 2013
Hardcover
Heads You Lose, April 2011
Hardcover
The Spellmans Strike Again, February 2011
Paperback (reprint)
The Spellmans Strike Again, March 2010
Hardcover
Revenge Of The Spellmans, March 2009
Hardcover
Curse of the Spellmans, March 2008
Hardcover
The Spellman Files, February 2008
Paperback
The Spellman Files, March 2007
Hardcover

Also by David Hayward:

Heads You Lose, April 2011
Hardcover

Heads You Lose
Lisa Lutz, David Hayward

New York Times?bestselling author Lisa Lutz conspires with?or should we say against??coauthor David Hayward to write an original and hilarious tag-team crime novel.

Putnam
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Featuring: Paul Hansen; Lacey Hansen
320 pages
ISBN: 0399157409
EAN: 9780399157400
Hardcover
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Mystery

Meet Paul and Lacey Hansen: orphaned, pot-growing, twentysomething siblings eking out a living in rural northern California. When a headless corpse appears on their property, they can’t exactly dial 911, so they move the body and wait for the police to find it. Instead, the corpse reappears, a few days riper—and this time Lacey recognizes it as her ex-fiancé . . . and an amateur sleuth is born. Make that two.

When collaborators Lutz and Hayward (former romantic partners) start to disagree about how the story should unfold, the body count rises, victims and suspects alike develop wildly inconsistent characteristics (meet Brandy Chester, the stripper with the Mensa IQ), and our defective detectives wind up putting both their lives at risk. Think Adaptation meets Weeds. Will the authors solve the mystery without killing each other first?

Comments

2 comments posted.

Re: Heads You Lose

I'm a big fan of Lutz's Spellman files and went into this book with high expectations. While there were some laugh-out-loud moments, overall it was just OK. The best part was the snarky exchange between the authors. I would have like to seen more of that, with it escalating as they became frustrated. The core mystery was not particularly engaging, except as a vehicle for the authors to take digs at each other. I think like the basic premise, but I think it needed to be much more over the top.
(Maria Munoz 6:23pm June 22, 2011)

Now this is certainly different - :-) - I love it!
(Felicia Ciaudelli 1:10pm January 9, 2012)