Williamsburg Regional Library

Oregon Hill, by Howard Owen

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fiction

Oregon Hill

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by Howard Owen

The Willie Black mysteries, bk. 1

Willie Black is a newspaper reporter who has squandered a lot of things in his life and is 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 he's back on the night cops beat, right where he started when he came to work for the Richmond paper almost thirty years ago. When a coed at the local university where Willie's daughter is a perpetual student is murdered, her headless body found along the South Anna River, the hapless alleged killer is arrested within days. Everyone seems to think the case is closed. But Willie, against the orders and advice of his bosses at the paper, the police, and just about everyone else, doesn't think the case is solved at all and embarks on a one-man crusade to do what he's always done: get the story

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