Our Plot Summary!

 Dear Readers,
Now that I have decided the mystery genre and the elements that come with that. My partner and I also decided the plot of our opening. The main character is on a trip they are detective who is not necessarily from the town, but feels a sort of Deja vu and later finds out how they themselves personally are entangled in the drama. 

The crime the detective is solving is the disappearance of a young woman. Its alluded that it could of been a drug abuse story, but we later find out what her involvement with the alleged drugs are. I am still trying to figure out how we could personally involve the detective in the case without being an outsider to the situation. One of my ideas is to involve a character who is secretly working against the detective maybe a spy on the inside, to keep to girl disappearance hidden. Maybe like a witness or an assistant who was assigned to work with our lead detective. Another idea could be maybe having a case in her/his hometown or a town they have visited before, not for work related reasons though.

What I personally think it would be cool to kinda change the environment when the detective is lost in thought or working hard. I kinda want the lighting to shift and maybe the environment to change. I would want the lighting to lean more to neon colors, kinda like in "I saw the TV glow". One of the scenes in my opening could be the detective hard at work, lots of insert shots in their office with bright neon lighting and then some calls them and they snap back to their reality.

Inspired by Knives out, I think I want their to be a fake original explanation for the girls disappearance, like its believed that she died due to a drug overdose, as she seemed like was addicted to drugs. The actual explanation for her disappearance is her unfortunately getting involved with the room crowd. Still figuring out that part out though.

I want to incorporate possible themes in my story