Maggie Pill Mysteries

Readers, the new book is on its way to Editor #1, and I still don't have a title. I'm interested in hearing your ideas for a book about     An elderly woman    lives in Florida    has 8 cats   finds a dead body in her side yard   can't stop herself from trying to find the killer. I found this great picture, so what might this book be called? My working title is Lorilee's Furry Gang of Eight but that's kind of long and not very satisfying. I tried a title generator and got 2 other possibilities: Murder with Cats and Cats & Crime.   Meh.

I've been working on the second installment of Trailer Park Tales, which will follow Once Upon a Trailer Park sometime in the next few months. The same four couples you met in Book #1 will investigate a cold case, finding a man sought by police for two fifty-year-old murders. The word is he lives at B-Bird, but he's changed his identity, so the cops ask Ron & Julie to do some digging. They involve the other couples, because really, how much danger can there be with a crime from 1967? The book is almost together, which means I'll soon be sending it out to beta readers, editors, book reviewers, etc. What I don't have is a title, and that's where you can help. I'd planned to follow Once in the first title with Twice in the second. But when readers search for mysteries, they use keywords like murder, crime, suspects, death, kill, etc. I can't come up with a way to do both and come up with a catchy title. I've been spitballing ideas all morning, hopi...

   I've finally started writing the fourth Sleuth Sisters (Remember, there's another author in my head who has obligations too). Though a title isn't required for the writing part, my mind is toying with the possibilities. A lot of cozy titles are plays on words and that's okay, but I don't like them to be too cutesy. Since this mystery has to do with water rights, I'm wondering if A Long, Tall Drink of Murder is a good title. Be warned: tomorrow I might have a whole different idea, and to be honest, titles with "dog" or "cat" in the title sell extremely well. Maybe I should get Styx or Buddy or Barb's stray cat into the title, because of course they'll all have a role. Opinions?