“Absolutely,” Juliet said before taking a bite of her own salad. She chewed thoughtfully for a moment and swallowed before speaking again. “You’ve got five really good main characters. It’s an ensemble that you could do lots of interesting things with, sort of like a crime-fighting team similar to the television show ‘Bones’ or one of those ‘CSI’ ones.”

     “You don’t think that having one of the main characters a serial killer will put people off? You don’t think they’ll want him caught?”

     She waved her fork around in the air while she spoke, “Not at all. Look at the popularity of ‘Dexter.’ Your Hyde is not quite the same,...