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Let's Play: How To Make An Ominous-Sounding Mystery Title
Mainstream mystery titles have the uncanny ability to turn the ordinary into the ominous. Like a macabre version of Mad Libs, sometimes all a title needs is a combination of a person and a place to achieve maximum foreboding. The Body in the Library, The Couple Next Door, and The Woman in the Window are all prime examples of this. And if you want to turn the terror up a notch, you can never go wrong with adding the word "girl" to let readers know that trouble isn't too far away.
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and birth date to the chart below. Then stand back for that spine-tingling (or snicker-inducing) effect. Who knows? Your title could be the next big name in the mystery genre!
What's your bestselling mystery title? Share it with us in the comments!
The rules to this game are simple: Match your birth month and birth date to the chart below. Then stand back for that spine-tingling (or snicker-inducing) effect. Who knows? Your title could be the next big name in the mystery genre!
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Apr 06, 2018 11:10AM
Death at the all-night diner
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Death at the Car WashSounds like a newspaper headline
The Stalker in the Meat Locker like what would they even stalk? the t-bone steak?
Death at the Car DealershipThat sound so bad... I don't think I would read this one! haha
I'm laughing so hard because I got "The Devil in the Botanical Garden", and my mind went straight to a Hades and Persephone retelling, and it's so perfect for me. Thank you Goodreads!
The stalker on the steamboat....sounds like a mystery set in the deep south in the 1870's!
The Stranger on the Steamboat! My kinda title! It's like Agatha Christie and Mark Twain had tea for the afternoon and did some brainstorming!
death in the meat locker...I cried laughing
The Widow on Flight 42. I think I have a new book title alongside the other two books I'm working on ;)
Death in the Emergency Room.They didn't even try here lol
Mehsi wrote: "The Body in the Fun House."same
The body in the Elevator. And no one knows what happened and where the killer went.
The Widow in the Panic Room- it has a certain Movie of the week feel to it.
The Woman in the Swamp.
Uh-oh, not so sure about how that sounds...
Uh-oh, not so sure about how that sounds...
Mine sounds like a a Nancy Drew The shadow at the DMV!
The Stalker on the Fire EscapeThat sounds more like an actual concern than a book title...
I get that there's a lot of angst at the DMV, but I'm pretty sure there's kind of a code where you just don't go killing people after they've waited in line for 2 days.
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This Kooky Wildflower Loves a Little Tea and Books
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Evil at the DMVTruer words.
Truer words.
The body in the abandoned theme park
The Woman at the Car Dealership"I was told the undercoating would take care of these things," the woman intoned, pinching a folded receipt and passing it to Manuel. He checked the log. Purchased four days earlier. Slumping down to the pavement, he peered under the car at what looked like rust, too much, "I was down at the shore and let my son drive on the beach," she explained.
His phone buzzed with a coworker's email: the car's history. The wrong license plate appeared. Registration out of date. The old Chevy had been totaled in '95, but it was the wrong color. He blanched,
"I'll have to ask my manager," he muttered, rising and dusting off his pants. A minor click made him turn, eye the shiny metal tip protruding from behind her black purse. Her voice dipped,
"The keys, please. I think I know what's wrong."
