Murder mystery novelist Ellen Godfrey won an Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers of America special award for true crime after writing By Reason of Doubt (Clarke, Irwin, 1981), her coverage of the Swiss trial of a UBC professor named Cyril Belshaw, a renowned anthropologist, who was accused of murdering his wife in Switzerland and leaving her body in a ravine. Fast forward 14 years and Rebecca Godfrey, her daughter, has followed a first novel, The Torn Skirt, with a true crime investigation of a brutal crime and its aftermath in which a group of teenagers were accused of leaving their victim's body under a bridge. Rebecca Godfrey, now a New York-based journalist, has profiled the various characters involved in the beating death of 14-year-old Reena Virk of Victoria on November 14, 1997, for Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk (HarperCollins, $32.95). Godfrey attended the trials of Kelly Ellard and she interviewed Warren Glowatski, both convicted in the case. 0002000679