Heads You Lose

Name: Heads You Lose
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Lisa Lutz
ISBN: 9781101484388

Author: Lisa Lutz, David Hayward

Narrator: Abby Craden

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/05/2011

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Family Life, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

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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About The Author

Lisa Lutz is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, and is also the coauthor, with David Hayward, of Heads You Lose. She lives in Upstate New York.David Hayward’s poetry has appeared in Harper’s, ZYZZYVA, and The Threepenny Review, and has won a Pushcart Prize. He is coauthor, with Lisa Lutz, of Heads You Lose.Abby Craden is an award-winning stage and film actress and can be seen in the Emmy Award-winning documentary Bloody Thursday. She holds an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine and was named "One of 2012’s Best Voices." Her voice can be heard in commercials, animation, video games, and audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Phloe

Okay, so I really wanted to hate this book, but it's just too hilarious. I won't rehash what everyone else say, but I will say the "story" itself isn't that fantastic. However, when you wonder-twin activate it with the fact the two (ex-lover) authors writing the alternate chapters effing can't stand......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

I laughed out loud more than I have with a book in ages! Comic genius! Very clever! It’s a gimmick and I absolutely love it and admire the result, book title included. Hilarious! Absolutely the funniest collaboration imaginable, funny ha ha, not funny peculiar, although it’s delightfully peculiar too.......more

Goodreads review by K

When I told my husband about the idea of this book he said, "You know, it only has to work a little for it to be good." I actually agree. I'm giving it three stars because it worked a little, not a lot, but the concept was very cute and I did laugh out loud at moments. Lisa Lutz and an ex-boyfriend c......more

Goodreads review by Wendy

I'm the lucky Penguin (Putnam) sales rep that gets to sell in this new novel to booksellers in the Bay area, early next year. I had never read Lisa Lutz before (and her Spellman series). Happy to finally discover such a funny, snarky, readable author. This non-Spellman book is about two orphan sibli......more