Description
A Tulsa piano technician is tuning a concert grand when the mansion’s 81-year-old owner is killed one floor above her, and the homicide detective on the case works for the lieutenant who once named her father as a jewel thief. Her tuning log is her only alibi, it has a six-minute gap, and someone is framing a Hanlon for the second time.
Genre: Romantic suspense > police romance with a murder mystery
Tropes: Detective and witness · cop falls for the suspect · she has every reason to hate cops · forbidden (conflict of interest) · old wrong to put right · he has to choose between his mentor and the truth
Target length: 85,000–90,000 words, about 44 chapters
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