Sitting in front of my semi-large collection of books, I sort through all the titles and it makes me wonder, where or how did they come up with the titles they have. I've got authors like James Patterson, C.J. Box, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, Tess Gerritsen, Lisa Black just to name a few. As I mentioned before Patricia Cornwell has a title of her book The Body Farm, which is a fiction story of her main character Kay Scarpetta touring the body farm. One of her books that I have not read yet, but found doing some research is called Port Mortuary. It is an actual place that is on Dover Air Force Base. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/excerpt-patricia-cornwells-port-mortuary/story?id=12266046. This is a link of an interview Patricia did on GMA talking about her book. I have also supplied a link that talks more about this place. It's pretty interesting. http://www.mortuary.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15361.
I have a few books from an author John Sanford. I have heard good things about his books, although I have never read his books yet. I did notice that all his books have prey in the title. For example, Rules of Prey, Shadow of Prey, Eyes of Prey, just to name a few. here is a link of his books if you would like to check out his series. http://www.johnsandford.org/faq.html
It's pretty interesting how authors come to title their books and sometimes after reading it, you still are left puzzled on how they came up with that title while others it is pretty obvious. I will continue to wonder when reading a book how they do come up with the titles of their books as I'm sure it's not easy.
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