Heads You Lose

By Lisa Lutz; David Hayward
(Putnam Adult, Hardcover, 9780399157400, 320pp.)

Publication Date: April 5, 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback

Categories: Humorous, Mystery & Detective - General

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the April 2011 Indie Next List

“While the multiple murders and other suspicious activity are the components of a typical crime novel, typical is, of course not Lutz's MO. This collaborative effort with ex-boyfriend, the poet Hayward, is no exception. They write alternate chapters, exposing each other's foibles as well as their shared history in notes between the chapters. The result is hilarious, despite a looming conviction that they will never write the solution to the mystery before coming to actual blows off the page. Another fun and genre-bending experience from Lutz.”

-- Terry Gilman, Mysterious Galaxy Books, San Diego, CA

Description

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.

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 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 surprising characteristics (meet Brandy Chester, the stripper with the Mensa IQ), and sibling rivalry reaches homicidal intensity. Think Adaptation crossed with Weeds. Will the authors solve the mystery without killing each other first?

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No Love Lost In Crime Authors' New Story

Saturday, Apr 16, 2011

Crime fiction author Lisa Lutz and poet David Hayward were once a couple. They've gotten back together, but this time to write a new crime novel called Heads You Lose. Host Scott Simon talks with the authors, who also created a kind of parallel book within their novel by sharing the e-mail exchanges between the two of them as they wrote, including japes, zingers and even the occasional compliment. More at NPR.org

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