Heads You Lose (Hardcover) by Lisa Lutz, David Hayward

from ethel55

For fans of the Spellmans, the good news is that footnotes and asides survive in this new collaboration of Lutz's with a former boyfriend David Hayward. Written and told by alternating authors and narrators, this murder mystery of brother and sister pot growers Paul and Lacey Hansen is a circuito...

from PitcherBooks

Always wondered how co-authors collaborated together on a book. In this case, each author wrote a chapter and then handed it off to the other author (along with side-splitting snarky notes). I'm not sure which made me laugh more the author's notes or their increasingly competitive and punishing c...

from mmoj

Heads You Lose is a murder mystery about two pot-growing siblings, Paul and Lacey. The two siblings find a body, move the body and then find the body again. What happens in the rest of the book is darkly funny with off-beat characters who are moved along by two authors, Lisa Lutz and David Haywar...

from BeckyJG

Once upon a time Lisa and David were an item. A thing. A couple. Now they're not. But they are still friends, mostly. One day Lisa has an idea: Why don't I send David this first chapter of a crime novel and propose a collaboration? He's a poet, so he could certainly use the money he'd make by col...

from bookappeal

The gimmick is that Lutz and ex-boyfriend poet Hayward communicate to each other at the end of their alternately-written chapters. Their notes are amusing but the real pleasure is watching how each tries to spite the other in the writing and plotting of his or her chapters and wondering how they ...