Heads You Lose / Lisa Lutz and David Hayward

Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward. 300 p.

This is a book where the story about the book--in this case, how it was written--is almost more interesting than the story in the book. Lutz is the author of the Spellman Files books, which I recommend. Hayward is a poet, and Lutz's ex-boyfriend. She wrote the first chapter of this book and invited him to collaborate: she would write all of the odd-numbered chapters, and he the even-numbered ones. The published book includes their notes back and forth to each other, and I frankly enjoyed those at least as much as the actual mystery, because I never became invested in caring about any of the characters. A fun, breezy read.

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