Belie (2025)

It’s a crucial test for Commander Sean Colbeth and his Major Crimes unit when the unthinkable happens.

Pizzeria Angelina was one of the few things time seemed to have spared in the downtrodden community of East Newberry: a familiar presence along the banks of the Penobscot river since opening its red-and-white checkered doors in 1965, it had for decades served as a cultural touchstone to the ever-diminishing population of the former mill town.  Now just as tired and worn out as the community it serves, the heir to the founder has bowed to the inevitable and made plans to hang up their pizza paddles for good.  But the impending closure of the cherished institution draws unwanted attention — first from an out-of-town stranger intent on buying the pizzeria from the aging owner, then from a rampaging conspiracy theorist who mows down two dozen patrons with a semiautomatic pistol on a random weeknight before disappearing into thin air.

Commander Sean Colbeth of the Maine State Police finds himself compelled to get answers for those touched by the nearly incomprehensible tragedy, especially in a state where mass murders are exceptionally rare.  Joined by his newly formed Major Crimes unit, Sean sifts through the unusually complicated lives of those lost in the senseless massacre and forms an entirely different theory on just what took place the evening of the shooting — a theory that surfaces unpleasant secrets the tight-knit community would rather have kept submerged deep in the murky depths of the Penobscot.  

Separating fact from fiction is something Sean is unusually adept at, but unexpected developments in an off-the-books personal investigation begin to interfere with his moral compass, putting him into an ethical gray area that threatens to derail both his career and, perhaps more importantly, his resuscitated relationship with Dr. Suzanne Kellerman.  Combined with the added pressure of resolving the case to the satisfaction of  the politicians in Augusta, finding his way back to the man he knows he should be — needs to be — proves to be every bit as challenging as locating a killer capable of hiding in plain sight.