From Murders of Substance to Woodhead & Becker

In the last post, I announced a change to the Murders of Substance series to The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries, as well as a change of the book titles to The Winterstone Murder and The Bridegroom Murder.

Changing the titles of series and books is not a small task, so that raises a couple of questions: how did I come up with the original titles, and why am I changing?

I first came up with the idea for this series while listening to one of my favorite albums: Substance by the British post-punk band New Order. (Hence, Murders of Substance.)

New Order was one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, growing out of the band Joy Division. They pushed the bounds of technology, sequencing, and tape loops. “Blue Monday” was...Read More