The Bellamy Trial

Outside the Redfield courtroom, a crowd surges against the doors like a ravenous beast. Inside, a red-headed novice reporter takes her seat—and learns she has come to cover the trial of the century.

In a county-seat town near New York, the Philadelphia Planet’s new reporter finds the courtroom packed and the corridors heaving with people hungry for the story. A seasoned newspaperman offers to show her the ropes, but his cynicism clashes with her conviction that murder lays bare what makes people truly alive. The case is against Susan Ives and Stephen Bellamy, accused of killing Madeleine Bellamy; as the trial begins, the young writer must make sense of both the evidence and the spectacle feeding on it. What will she discover beneath the crowd’s fascination?

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