The Trench Angel

"Colorado, 1919. Photographer Neal Stephens, home from the war, is blackmailed by the sheriff over his secret marriage to a black woman in France. When the sheriff is murdered and both Neal and his sister are named suspects, Neal's own investigation calls up memories of the trenches and his long search across war-ravaged France for his dead wife, as he untangles the connections among the murder, the coalminers' strike, and his mysterious anarchist father"--Publisher description.