This is Lutz's first stand alone since The Spellman files, and it's certainly a lot different. It's an experiment of sorts--she's written half the chapters and a poet and ex-boyfriend of hers David Hayward has written the other half. The deal was that they write "blind", not making an outline or even speaking to each other directly about the project. They allowed them on short note to each other at the end of every chapters as well as some commentary footnotes, but they couldn't edit each others' work. It certainly made for an interesting, if disjointed, read. There is no getting lost in the mystery because it was really two stories-- one being the murder mystery involving a headless corpse found by a pot growing mismatch of brother and sister and the hilarity of amateur investigations in small towns,the other was Lisa and David snarking at each other throughout the book, sabotaging characters and plot lines at every opportunity. It is an entertaining and unique read that may surprise her fans, but was an interesting introduction to Lutz for me.