Plot Idea
Something that just came to my head as I watched the season 1 finale of Murder in a Small Town. It’s just the beginnings of an idea, rather than a true plot point, but probably not something I’ll ever do anything with - and with the death of NaNo, I’m not sure I have anywhere else to share it.
Murders in a Large Town
A detective from the small town of Purple Gorge, a very small town with a very high murder rate - you know, like one of those small towns on TV - is promoted to the nearby metropolis of Grassford and is taken aback by the relative lack of murders given the numerously more people in the city; the fewer eyewitnesses and, indeed, the lack of neighbors who have useful - or not so useful - gossip, er, information, to add; the much larger pool of suspects that each case starts with; and the absurd amount of oversight that exists, limiting their ability to just investigate the case.
While they’ve built up a solid case closure rate in Purple Gorge, things take a wide swing in Grassford as, despite the much wider availability of things like security cameras and people walking around at all times, no one has seen anything and the unsolved cases start piling up. Torn between the comfort of the small town gruesome murders that linger in the air for months and the larger city’s run-of-the-mill deaths that everyone has moved on from within minutes, they find themselves wondering whether this was actually a promotion or a punishment.
