Unreasonable Doubt

What would it be like to return to your hometown after twenty-five years in prison for a crime you have maintained you did not commit? And why would you return?

Unreasonable Doubt explores this haunting question through the eyes of Walter Desmond, who is back in Trafalgar, British Columbia. He has been officially exonerated when new evidence revealed corruption at worst, incompetence at best, by the Trafalgar City Police during the investigation. His determined attorney is seeking five million in damages from the provincial government. But Walt has not returned to Trafalgar to pursue money or revenge. He just wants to know the why of it.

The family of the murdered girl, Sophia D'Angelo, is bitterly determined to see Walt returned to prison—or worse. However, for Trafalgar's police, including Sergeant John Winters and Constable Molly Smith, the reality is that if Walter didn't kill Sophia, someone else did.

So, the case is reopened. It lands on Winters' desk. The records are deteriorating. One investigating officer is dead, the other is retired—and not talking. The police force is instructed to treat Walt as if he had never been arrested or convicted. Someone else apparently killed Sophia, someone still walking free.

But too many minds remain closed. It's fortunate for Walt that a group of women in town for the dragon boat race are staying in the B&B where he's booked—women with no local prejudices. However, when a townswoman and a boat woman are attacked by a rapist, the media becomes active, and tempers dangerously flare.