Friday Face-Off: “Murder” In The Title
Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined theme, post and compare two or more different covers available for that book, then name your favorite. A list of future weeks’ themes are available at Lynn’s Book Blog.
This week’s theme is:
~ a cover of a book with “MURDER” IN THE TITLE
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Pretty straightforward theme this week. I give you The Murders of Molly Southbourne by the master of modern weird horror, Tade Thompson:
From left to right:
Tor.com (2017) – French Edition (2019)
Catalan; Valencian Edition (2019) – Hungarian Edition (2021)
Winner:
The contenders are all pretty strong this week, and the red/black/white color scheme is actually one of my favorites. I guess my winner would be the one that drew my attention right away.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
I like the two last ones!
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Your choice is a very effective one, indeed: the other covers (especially the first two) make me think more about a catastrophic event rather than the titular murders… 😉
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Some of these are pretty bloody!
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Ha ha I thought I was picking a fairly obscure book😁 My favorite is the French cover.
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Great minds 😉
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Great choice!
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It’s a toss up for me between the Tor.com “hit you in the face” cover and the French “oh that’s a cool design” cover.
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Haha, the “hit you in the face” cover…now whenever I look at it, I can help but flinch a little 😛
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This one was so weird!
I like the first cover the best
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He does write some weird shit!
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I like all these covers tbh but the one you have chosen is very effective.
Lynn 😀
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