MAKE YOUR CHOICE

It is said that there are only Seven Basic Plots

1. Overcoming the monster -- defeating some force which threatens...e.g. most Hollywood movies; Star Wars, James Bond.
2. The Quest -- typically a group set off in search of something and(usually) find it. e.g. Watership Down, Pilgrim's Progress, Good Companions
3. Journey and Return -- the hero journeys away from home to somewhere different and finally comes back having experienced something and maybe changed for the better. e.g. Wizard of Oz, Gullivers Travels.
4. Comedy - not neccesarily a funny plot. Some kind of misunderstanding or ignorance is created that keeps parties apartwhich is resolved towards the end bringing them back together. e.g.Bridget Jones Diary, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice.
5. Tragedy - Someone is tempted in some way, vanity, greed etc and becomes increasingly desperate or trapped by their actions until at a climax they usually die. Unless it's a Hollywood movie, when they escape to a happy ending. e.g. Devils' Advocate, Hamlet.
6. Rebirth - hero is captured or oppressed and seems to be in a state of living death until it seems all is lost when miraculously they are freed. e.g. Snow White.
7. Rags to Riches - self explanatory really. e.g. Cinderella derivatives of both sexes (all 27,000 of them)!!!

OR PERHAPS YOU KNOW BETTER!
Add to this a useful ingredient. Dramatic Irony.
The reader knows more than the character in the story, who has just blabbed everything to the man with the missing finger, who we know is the villain!