Showing posts with label copycat titles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copycat titles. Show all posts

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.