A Cover-Up Conspiracy

“A Cover-Up Conspiracy is the latest adventure of Will and Betsy Black. The husband-and-wife team will sweep you along like a tidal wave in this seventh outing of crime-busting and uncovering conspiracies!”
- H. L. Osterman, author of Walter the Weirdo Solves a Murder

Longtime, popular, Florida Keys school superintendent Buford Boyle is in the middle of a contested reelection campaign when he’s involved in a one-vehicle fender-bender on Big Pine Key. Not realizing the seriousness of the accident (or misdiagnosing the seriousness of the accident), Buford leaves the accident scene, making the most enormous mistake of his career. Instead of hitting a Key deer as he thought, Buford has killed an innocent child. Thus begins an irreversible downward spiraling cover-up as a dual begins to unfold between him and the fanatical father of the victim. He will do anything to identify (or he is determined to identify) and bring to justice is son’s killer. Adding further fuel to the blaze, Buford’s wife, Rachel, is engaged with concealing a cover-up of her own. Tensions are destined to escalate the point that eruptions become unavoidable and catastrophic to everyone in the line of fire.

David Beckwith is a three-generation native of Greenville, Mississippi, with a BBA and an MBA from Ole Miss. His parents owned an independent cash commodity trading firm which also cleared securities trades through Goodbody & Co. David spent 40 years in the securities business, the first half of his career with Bache & Co. and its successors, the second half with Morgan Stanley. He retired as a Senior Vice President with approximately $500 million in responsibilities. For 25 years he has served as an adjunct professor at five different universities.

David’s wife Nancy earned a doctorate in finance and was the largest commercial lender and underwriter for Florida National Bank/1st Union/Wachovia, a member of their President’s Club, and a board member. Also she served as the provost of the Brookley Campus for the University of South Alabama.