I am fairly happy with my final design for the cover. I think overall it achieves what I set out to do, create a bold, graphic cover that explains the story well.
The imagery I used is really simple, with the repeated blood drops being the main focus, however looking past them I think one of the strongest elements in the cover is the use of type. I think using that old-school newspaper print definitely helped to demonstrate that the book is a murder mystery story.
I am quite disappointed that I wasn't able to develop the shotgun cover, as I think that could have been really interesting, however the time I set myself to complete the cover was up and I wanted to be realistic about completing the cover in a time which would have been allowed of me had it been a real live commission for penguin.
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