I’m a former nurse but now retired and enjoy writing as a hobby. I’m currently writing a novel set in a not too distant future where a main character has ASD and is relentless on finding and following clues. While investigating the suspected murder she discovers details were hidden by the authorities in charge. The setting is in a small town and the sheriff is the brother of the detective’s transwoman confidential informer (aka CI or snitch). The detective discovers why her CI left the community years ago. Her sheriff brother and the coroner hid pertinent details about charges against the CI out of love for the character.
I see the story as being a neo-noir and I plan to show just how dogged the detective can be when she investigates her own fellow investigators. She believes everyone is a suspect until she can determine why they should be cleared. The facts she uncovers don’t actually affect her murder case directly but do showcase her ASD in action. What I’m hoping to find here are how to authentically write how she handles the revelations she uncovers of wrongdoing by the authorities. Implicating them in a decades old act would only hinder her own ongoing investigations therefore I plan to have her confront the sheriff and coroner who confess but state it was because they love the accused and although the evidence looked bad there was also exculpatory evidence and they decided in the end the accused would not be convicted but their would always be a shadow of doubt in many in their small community therefore they ‘helped’ keep justice blind.
My question for any who may have read this far is to critique my ASD detective’s reaction. She has a high moral compass and sense of justice but this also will conflict with her own ongoing investigation therefore she tells them they did wrong but that is on them and then proceeds with her investigation but now considers the authorities as unreliable narrators in some aspects of her investigation. Does how i portrayed my ASD detective’s actions to her discovery ring true for an ASD?
I see the story as being a neo-noir and I plan to show just how dogged the detective can be when she investigates her own fellow investigators. She believes everyone is a suspect until she can determine why they should be cleared. The facts she uncovers don’t actually affect her murder case directly but do showcase her ASD in action. What I’m hoping to find here are how to authentically write how she handles the revelations she uncovers of wrongdoing by the authorities. Implicating them in a decades old act would only hinder her own ongoing investigations therefore I plan to have her confront the sheriff and coroner who confess but state it was because they love the accused and although the evidence looked bad there was also exculpatory evidence and they decided in the end the accused would not be convicted but their would always be a shadow of doubt in many in their small community therefore they ‘helped’ keep justice blind.
My question for any who may have read this far is to critique my ASD detective’s reaction. She has a high moral compass and sense of justice but this also will conflict with her own ongoing investigation therefore she tells them they did wrong but that is on them and then proceeds with her investigation but now considers the authorities as unreliable narrators in some aspects of her investigation. Does how i portrayed my ASD detective’s actions to her discovery ring true for an ASD?
