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I hope this so-called romance had a warning so unexpecting readers especially young readers are not lured by the misnomer in classification.

Me too.

You'd be lucky if any of the cops from that era could remember what they did. I'm from the late sixties and seventies but things did not change drastically until DNA, and other new techs. I remember when our lab learned the superglue fuming to raise fingerprints it was like a new world.
You don't have to kill anyone off to move a detective. He could ask to be reassigned for this case if it was special to him. Or the supervisor could re-assign him because of special skills.
You talking about old cops made me think about a guy in our neighborhood. He is in his 90's and was on LBJ's Secret Service detail. He does not talk about his experiences. I wish he did.

In my experience, day shift investigators did original investigations that occurred during their shift and follow-up on those which occurred at night. The size of the department has a lot to do with this. I would imagine in small departments with limited detectives they might be woken up to make a homicide.  In large departments those cases are passed on to the day shift. As a Captain of a shift, I had the choice of using my detectives to work a follow-up case especially on the evening shift.
We had investigators who grew to be specialists in either crime scene work, or follow-up work and to a certain extent they were allowed to choose their shifts.
When I was an investigator my partner and I were almost exclusively follow-up investigators. In Houston we could have as many as 10 new investigations per night. The crime scene guys were spent at the end of their shift and had to be relieved.
Hope this helped some.

Since I write without an outline or real plan, I let my chapters find their own end. Some are as short as 1,000 words, some have been 3,000. Let the book write itself and it will tell you.
Mike

Hi Danielle, Hunter, is still posted. Although it's at the editor's now suggestions are still welcome. I fits your criteria. Check it out.
Mike

Congrats. Five stars on the first review. Perfection. I know you're are justifiably proud. May this be the first of many.
MIke

I love it. Talk about being put in your place.
RIP Yogi.
Mike

I had that once.  It's the kinnibling pin. I falls off the wabble washer and makes a mess. Open the framus and hook the rubber band back over the whatsit, and you'll be fine.
mike

The moral of ths story, some things are better not questioned and when things are going your way shut up and enjoy it. LOL
MIke

Waving back to standing ovation!  Hi.  I'm Mike. I don't write straight romance, but I include romance in my writing. I'm a retired detective, retired engineering professional.  I review mainly for story, missed words, overused words, and such. Punctuation rules elude me. My book Hunter is complete and still posted.  It is a compilation of Action, love story, police procedural, Christia lifestyle.  I would enjoy anyone reading and commenting.
Mike