Description
When a sober young mother misses her final custody hearing and turns up dead, the Richmond family court judge who ruled against her breaks the one rule judges must never break: she starts investigating the case herself. The trail leads back into her own courthouse, to the man whose reports she has trusted for years.
Genre: Mystery, women sleuths / legal mystery with a crime-fiction edge
Tropes: Unlikely investigator (a sitting judge); missing woman; respected insider with a secret; the rules versus the right thing; found family at the courthouse; slow-burn maybe-romance
Target length: 75,000–85,000 words
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