u/lockedbird77

In my mystery, the murderer is transporting a corpse in a car/van. I need:

• the body to not be squished into a box or luggage case, so it has to be a long box/bag

• it'll be a van with the back seats pushed down into the van to make space. Ideally the person riding next to murderer in the passenger seat cannot look back and see it OR can see it but thinks it is a common box

• the box/luggage case/bag has to also be a not-abnormal thing. It should be something that if he were stopped by a police officer/asked by the passenger, he could just say "Oh I'm just transporting X item in its packaging"

So I wanted ideas for X. Is there any typically large things that vans are used to move? It also doesn't have to be a van but could be a pickup truck, SUV, etc. I just needed ideas.

Thanks!

In my mystery, the murderer is transporting a corpse in a car/van. I need:

• the body to not be squished into a box or luggage case, so it has to be a long box/bag

• it'll be a van with the back seats pushed down into the van to make space. Ideally the person riding next to murderer in the passenger seat cannot look back and see it OR can see it but thinks it is a common box

• the box/luggage case/bag has to also be a not-abnormal thing. It should be something that if he were stopped by a police officer/asked by the passenger, he could just say "Oh I'm just transporting X item in its packaging"

So I wanted ideas for X. Is there any typically large things that vans are used to move? It also doesn't have to be a van but could be a pickup truck, SUV, etc. I just needed ideas.

Thanks!

In my mystery, the murderer is transporting a corpse in a car/van. I need:

• the body to not be squished into a box or luggage case, so it has to be a long box/bag

• it'll be a van with the back seats pushed down into the van to make space. Ideally the person riding next to murderer in the passenger seat cannot look back and see it OR can see it but thinks it is a common box

• the box/luggage case/bag has to also be a not-abnormal thing. It should be something that if he were stopped by a police officer/asked by the passenger, he could just say "Oh I'm just transporting X item in its packaging"

So I wanted ideas for X. Is there any typically large things that vans are used to move? It also doesn't have to be a van but could be a pickup truck, SUV, etc. I just needed ideas.

Thanks!

FYI, I've never been published and am only a casual writer. Haven't decided on comps yet, but I'll def have them when/if I go through with submitting to an agent.

Query:

When Max Gilford accepts the Montrose family’s ad for a butler, he does so not for money but for truth. Two decades ago, he became an eight-year-old orphan when the cruise ship his parents worked on sank. Reporters swarmed the Montrose family who survived on the only working lifeboat, but no negligence or foul play was found, and the case was closed and forgotten.

Except for Max, who’s agonized over what truly happened for the past twenty years, even apprenticing under multiple detectives in preparation for this mission. He came prepared to find his own truth and, if necessary, deal his own justice.

But the opportunity is robbed from him when the family’s patriarch is defenestrated out the top-floor window shortly after his arrival. At the same time, both the phone lines and the bridge off the mountain estate are damaged, leaving the family and crew isolated.

Max could easily stand by as the brutal murders begin to mount from that point. But he’s never been one to hold back when he can help, and he would never get the answers he needed that way. So, with mixed feelings in his heart, he steps forward to save the very family that may have cost him his.

Along the way, he aims to learn the truth of that day, twenty years ago. But when he does, will he be able to stop the murderer? Or will he actually join them?

Complete at 75,000 words, THE PRICE OF TRUTH is an adult classical mystery aimed at fans of [COMP1] and [COMP2].