Oregon Hill (Willie Black #1 - Howard Owen
Category: Crime
Tags: Crime, Mystery
Willie Black is a newspaper reporter who has squandered a lot of things in this life - his liver, his lungs, a couple of former wives and a floundering daughter can all attest to his abuse. Hes lucky to be employed, having managed to drink and smart-talk his way out of a nice, cushy job covering (and partying with) the politicians down at the capitol., Now, hes back on the night cops beat, right where he started when he first came to work at the Richmond paper almost thirty years ago. The thing Willies always had going for him, though, all the way back to his hardscrabble days as a mixed-race kid on Oregon Hill, where white was the primary color and fighting was everyones favorite leisure pastime, was grit. His mother, the drug-addled Peggy, gave him that if nothing else. He never backed down then, and he shows no signs of changing., When a co-ed at the local university where Willies daughter is a perpetual student is murdered, her headless body found alongside the South Anna River, th
