Mystery ensembles around detective
Cozy: Slow sidekick, plodder cop, secretary/housekeeper
Gritty: Ornery pet, jerk cop, journalist, hacker buddies, lowlife associate, sad orphan
Procedural: DA, police chief, forensic pathologist, beat cops, IT tech
Psychological: ?
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Psychological: outsider lead, academic foil, disgraced mentor, fed-up spouse, blockhead cop, wily chief, rookie with hidden depths, redshirt / kidnap bait. (eg, Cracker, The Wire)
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Yeah viewpoint character in psych mysteries is often not a recurring detective but somebody entangled with a crime directly 🤔

