Sidney Ryan was a documentarian that had a career that appeared to be going nowhere…. until, she did three small ones about convicts that were in jail and were victims of shoddy poiice work. She didn’t come out and say they were guilty but put it into he minds of the viewers. All three cases were late overturned and her career jettisoned.
She began to get plenty of mail from others wanting her to look at their case. The one that intrigued her was Grace Sebold and her case in St. Lucia to talk to Grace about the evidence against her that she killed her boyfriend Julian.. Grace and Sidney had graduated from the Same college but never knew each other.
Sidney accepted the challenge and flew off to meet Grace. She interviewed the detective who was nervous to discuss the case, even though it was a decade ago. She feathered the evidence and took it back to her bosses at the major network and they gave her a ten segment slot to produce that.
People were enamored over this and everyone talk about I and anxiously awaited the next segment. She has over 20 million viewers. The network was making money from advertisers and putting more and more pressure on Sidney.
She had some high profile coroner’s and criminologists rework some of the date and they all shed doubt on the findings that Grace was guilty.
Sidney loved the new found Fame and was ready to sign for more money. In each episode she never stated Grace was innocent ofr guilty, She left that up to the audience.
The U. S Government wanted all her findings and they would take over but Sidney refused. The officials in St. Lucia were nervous and now afraid the trial and evidence was done to rapidly to help save the tourism business. One day they just held a heating and exonerated Grace and told her to leave immediately. They wanted it over and forgotten.
An elderly, retired detective with cancer, got wind of this story and sent Sidney a messenger to come and meet with him and told her . Don’t Believe it.
It’s certainly a climax that might divide some readers; and you’ll need to read the book to work that out for yourself.
Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea was published in Australia by Penguin Random House and is now available.