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cimoreneAuuurgh.
In a crime procedural that follows a case while also including an element of mystery, ie not an omniscient narrator, it's seriously damaging to your tension if you give away whodunnit less than halfway through the plot, then lead the investigators off on false leads.
Now, if you were making a horror movie and not a whodunnit, that type of dramatic irony would be exactly appropriate. But unless your plot is going to turn waaaaaaaaay around into a thriller - and I can already tell that it's not - then you need to make the breadcrumbs you leave in the narration subtle enough that the reader doesn't get bored later.
In a crime procedural that follows a case while also including an element of mystery, ie not an omniscient narrator, it's seriously damaging to your tension if you give away whodunnit less than halfway through the plot, then lead the investigators off on false leads.
Now, if you were making a horror movie and not a whodunnit, that type of dramatic irony would be exactly appropriate. But unless your plot is going to turn waaaaaaaaay around into a thriller - and I can already tell that it's not - then you need to make the breadcrumbs you leave in the narration subtle enough that the reader doesn't get bored later.
