The Benefit of Doubt

When Clara Morrow, a disability claimant, is found dead in her subsidized apartment, the authorities rule it a suicide. But the memories of those who touched her case—a jaded claims adjudicator, a harried physician, a vindictive ex-employer, and a compassionate neighbor—tell conflicting stories. As the truth dissolves into a labyrinth of self-justification and bureaucratic indifference, the novel exposes how institutional arrogance can quietly kill, and how the past is rewritten by those who survive.