Clandestine
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Pristine City is a crime ridden city filled with dishonest bureaucrats, meticulously orchestrating their schemes in the shadows. However, that is the least of the people's worries.
Karen Turner is a detective and works for the Pristine Police Department. Together with her partner Theodore Olsen along with other members of the team and a naive crime-fighting vigilante, Karen soon finds herself on a journey while working on different cases to unravel one of Pristine's darkest secrets yet.
[Author's Note]
I don't claim to know everything about crime or detective stuff, I just had to get this idea out of my head because it has been bugging me for a while.
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