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Capturing the Texas Rancher's Heart

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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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Lisa Lutz, David Hayward

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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?