The Beadle Files: Graveyard Promises

Graveyard Promises is the first installment of The Beadle Files a hardboiled suspense series set in the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition is the law of the land. Social and economic fluctuations are sweeping across the country and organized crime has become a volatile influence--it is the era of gangland infighting for territory and control of the flow of liquor.The main character in the ensemble cast is LC Beadle a World War I foreign correspondent who is now stateside in Durango Colorado. Following a lead the newspaperman gets caught up in a murder mystery that has conspiratorial undercurrents involving the Chicago rackets. Trouble or the threat of it is an ever-present reality leaping off the pages like an aggressive terrier.Schemes and plotlines jump from the Backdoor Vault to Triad Medical to Roosters Barnyard to Jewels Tea & Spice Emporium to the Kilkenny Social Club. The narrative entwines around the life and times of a legendary lawman and his family. Supernatural elements are woven into the fabric of story arcs as the age-old war between good and evil continues unabated.Despair is at odds with hope while hints of tragedy lurk in the shadows. The words of Yaz Lightfoot a deeply spiritual Lakota Sioux man serve as an overarching theme: Justice demands the fidelity of principled men.