Generate a list of potential titles for your crime novel!​

Describe your book in one word. Then enter it into the book title generator:


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Yes! It is free for anyone to use as many times as they would like to use it!

This tool uses words from popular crime book titles to help you brainstorm some potential book names! Sometimes it generates nonsense. But other times it can give you some great book titles or at least the seed of a great title idea for your next book! So try starting with a word that captures the spirit of your book. Then plug that word into the generator to see what comes up!

Crime as a genre differs from other genres in that its story typically revolves around a criminal act and its investigation. 

Crime differs slightly from mystery, a closely related genre, in that crime fiction focuses specifically on the investigation of the case whereas a mystery may not focus as much on the investigation itself.

As a result, crime fiction often has a legal element to it, usually involving lawyers, police officers, the court system, etc. And while mystery as a genre may involve these elements too, it doesn’t necessarily.    

With this in mind, try popping a word into the tool above to get some title ideas for your book!

Popular crime novel titles include:

Use the tool above to get even more ideas of book titles!

But know that the tool uses words from several popular crime novels to generate potential titles for your book.

So I don’t recommend putting a book name into the tool because then you might get some duplicate name ideas!