NOVEL IN SEARCH OF A TITLE
DESCRIPTION: Emma died at a young age during the Depression years in Mississippi, shortly after her miscarriage with her third child, leaving behind one son and one daughter, less than three years old. Her husband Houston remarried, and his second wife died within one and one-half years of Emma’s death; Etta left one child. Fast forward 20 years to the death of their granddaughter and the attempted murder of a second child. It turned out that poison had been given to each of these.
Title Possibilities
- Murdered: The Sharecropper’s daughter
2. Death Comes to the Farmer’s Daughter 3. Till murder do us part
4. Of death and retribution 5. Selected for Murder
6. Family secrets 7. Secrets unearthed
8. Grave Unmarked 9. Necessary evil
10 entitled to happiness 11 Murder for success
12 Family disrupted 13 Family interrupted
14 Sweet revenge 15 A taste for murder
16 Fits and ends 17 Mississippi Mayhem
18. Mississippi murder 19. Murder, Sweet Murder
20, Family murderer 21. death insurance
22. other______________
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