Heads You Lose

Dave I just finished the first chapter of a new novel-a real crime novel with a dead body and all-and I thought of you... Paul and Lacey Hansen are pot-growing twentysomething siblings sharing a modest rambler of a home in rural Northern California. When they find a headless corpse on their property they can''t exactly call 911 so they simply move the body to another location. Let somebody else find it. Instead the corpse reappears on their land. Clearly someone is sending them a message and it''s getting riper by the day. But that''s only half of the story...Enter authors Lisa Lutz and David Hayward-former real-life partners (professionally and personally) who have agreed to reunite for a tag- team mystery novel written in alternating chapters. One little problem: they disagree on pretty much every detail of how their novel should unfold. While the body count rises in Paul and Lacey''s wildly unpredictable fictional world so too does the intensity of Lisa and David''s rivalry. The result is a literary brawl like no other and a murder mystery every bit as unanticipated (and bloody).