Murders & Mistresses

A police consultant with a criminal record gets pulled into a brutal double homicide, and the case is the least compromising thing about him. Judgment matters more than logic here, and that goes for the investigation and everything happening at home.

The opening chapter sets up the murder case as a fully playable investigation, threaded with the kind of temptation and manipulation that a man with darker instincts probably shouldn't be trusted around. Work and home blur fast.

You split time between chasing leads on the case and the downtime around it: conversations, dates, and pressure from the people closest to you, including the ones you shouldn't be getting closer to. It's a short opening chapter, so don't expect the whole case cracked open by the end of it.