Support for Indie Authors discussion

39 views
Writers Workshop > Second Book Title

Comments Showing 1-12 of 12 (12 new)    post a comment »
dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by Jill (new)

Jill (jillbrock) | 77 comments Hello all,

I'm trying to think up a title for a cozy style mystery for the second in the book in the series. The first book was called The Thursday Night Killers Book Club. I want to keep the title as the series title so I need another one for the second the book.
The series main characters are three very diverse women who are in a book club. The setting is New York City and a lot of the action happens almost in all five boroughs. There's some humor, and a tad dark for a typical cozy.
The second book has to do with a coworker of one of the main characters who owns an auto shop. A body is found in a car at the shop and connections are made to the coworker. The coworker is arrested. The main characters try to find out the truth and the connection to the dead man and the coworker. 

The theme of the book flows around what we do for friends and the lengths you go through to help them, no matter how crazy. 


message 2: by Magnus (new)

Magnus Stanke (magnus_stanke) | 179 comments Hello
If I got this right you're looking for input to find a title based on the info above?
Hm, it's not easy, but I'll give it a shot. I guess you're looking for long-ish titles, so how about 'The Car Corpse in the Auto Shop'?


message 3: by Micah (new)

Micah Sisk (micahrsisk) | 1042 comments The Mechanics of Murder
Dead Load

That's all I can come up with off the top of my head.


message 4: by Magnus (new)

Magnus Stanke (magnus_stanke) | 179 comments Micah wrote: "The Mechanics of Murder
Dead Load

That's all I can come up with off the top of my head."


I like those


message 5: by Jill (new)

Jill (jillbrock) | 77 comments This gives me some ideas, thanks. Maybe to clarify, the body is found in the trunk. I do want to emphasize one of the main characters is from Brooklyn and the auto shop is located there. I thought of a tie in if I can. Maybe something like...

A Death on Avenue D
or
Death will get you to Brooklyn


message 6: by Magnus (new)

Magnus Stanke (magnus_stanke) | 179 comments I'm just riffing now. How about
A Hearse full of Brooklyn?
or, if you wanted a tie-in with your first book, you could have another day of the week in the title,
Something like
Friday's Stiff from Crooklyn

Last one. One of my favourite Tom Waits lines goes like this: 'Don't drive a car when you're dead'

A variation of that could be
Don't Die & Drive in Brooklyn


message 7: by Micah (new)

Micah Sisk (micahrsisk) | 1042 comments (Avenue) D Is For Death
The Brooklyn Body Shop
To Brooklyn By Death


message 8: by Magnus (new)

Magnus Stanke (magnus_stanke) | 179 comments To See the Five Burrough and Die


message 9: by Jill (new)

Jill (jillbrock) | 77 comments I've never had a book title drive me crazy. I can always call it

The One Where Someone Dies in Brooklyn.


message 10: by Carro (last edited Feb 16, 2019 07:46AM) (new)

Carro | 69 comments Would just comment as a UK person, any "in" reference to Brooklyn would lose me - like "To see the Five Burrough and Die" or "A Death on Avenue D". (Assuming that Avenue D says Brooklyn to anyone who knows it.)

Not in any way helpful, but I am reminded of a "Closer" episode with a body in the trunk, called "Junk in the Trunk".


message 11: by Jill (new)

Jill (jillbrock) | 77 comments I get you Carro. If you weren't familiar with the area, some titles would get lost. Need to rethink that one. Instead of focusing on the area, maybe focus on the friendship.


message 12: by Carro (new)

Carro | 69 comments Further thought - in the UK the car trunk is the boot. I watch enough US shows to know that boot=trunk, and a trunk could be a steamer trunk, so the meaning would mostly make it. Just FYI


back to top