Sunday, February 16, 2025

Names in Titles?

Compiling the new releases and working in a library it feels like I keep tripping over titles with women's names in them. Maybe it's not so much British crime fiction as I've just had a look-over last year's releases (1000+) and found only 9, excluding those that included the protagonist's name eg Agatha Raisin and... 

This trend possibly started with Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Matthew Blake - Anna O 
Rachael English - Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy? 
Nicci French - Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? (and in 2025: The Last Days of Kira Mullan)
Ellery Lloyd - The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby 
Nick Louth - The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle 
Dervla McTiernan - What Happened to Nina? 
Imran Mahmood - Finding Sophie 
M A Purcell - Finding Hannah 
C S Robertson - The Trials of Marjorie Crowe

I haven't spotted any titles with men's names in them.

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