Bibliograph

Oregon Hill, Howard Owen

Type

Label

Oregon Hill, Howard Owen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Oregon Hill

Oclc number

759174040

Responsibility statement

Howard Owen

Series statement

The Willie Black mysteries, bk. 1

Summary

Willie Black, a reporter who<U+2019>s about as close to washed up as a guy can get while still being employed, stumbles onto the story of his career when a young woman<U+2019>s decapitated body is discovered, and Willie, unlike nearly everyone else involved in the case, doesn<U+2019>t believe that the man arrested for the crime is the killer. Owen, whose first book, 1994<U+2019>s Littlejohn, may also be his most well known, is a careful, precise writer, creating characters so real that we have to keep reminding ourselves they<U+2019>re fictional, and stories so haunting that they stay with the reader long after the books are back on the shelf. As usual, his latest has a stellar cast: down-and-almost-out Willie; shifty local cop (and Willie<U+2019>s antagonist) David Junior Shiflett; the dead girl<U+2019>s father, who receives his daughter<U+2019>s head in a UPS box; Martin Fell, the accused killer (whose name, not to put too fine a point on it, suggests he might be a fall guy)

Target audience

adult

Classification