Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heads You Lose | 2011 | Lisa Lutz | Buy |
| 2 | How to Start a Fire | 2015 | Lisa Lutz | Buy |
| 3 | The Passenger | 2016 | Lisa Lutz | Buy |
| 4 | The Swallows | 2018 | Lisa Lutz | Buy |
| 5 | The Accomplice | 2022 | Lisa Lutz | Buy |
Lisa Lutz’s standalone novels cover a wider range than her Spellman comedies. Heads You Lose (2011), co-written with David Hayward, is a comic thriller written as a literary experiment where the two authors took turns writing chapters. How to Start a Fire (2015) follows three college friends across twenty years.
Her later standalones are darker. The Passenger (2016) is a thriller about a woman who sheds identities the way other people change clothes, and The Swallows (2018) follows female students at a boarding school who decide they have had enough. The Accomplice (2022) examines a long friendship shadowed by a disappearance. Together, the standalones show a writer moving steadily from comedy toward something sharper.