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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. He's 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 first came to work at the Richmond paper almost thirty years ago. The thing Willie's 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 everyone's 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 Willi'es daughter is a perpetual student is murdered, her headless body founf alongside the South Anna River, the hapless killer is arrested within days. Everyone but Willie seems to think: case closed. But Willie, against the orders and advice of his boses at the paper, the police and just about everyone else, doesn't think the case is solved at all. He embarks on a one-man crusade to do what he's always done: Get the story.
On the way, Willie runs afoul of David Junior Shiflett, a nightmare from his youth who's now a city cop, and awakens another dark force who everyone thought had disappeared a long time ago. As a result, a score born in the parking lot of an Oregon Hill beer joint forty years before will finally be settled.
The truth is out there. Willie Black's going to dig it out or die trying.
- Sales Rank: #690330 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-06-21
- Released on: 2012-06-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
''If anyone is watching out for the forgotten citizens of Oregon Hill, it's Willie, who grew up there and speaks the local language, a crisp and colorful urban idiom we can't wait to hear again.'' --New York Times
''Oregon Hill is a wondrous trip into the world of sarcastic newspaper reporters, bad cops, and murder most foul. Having worked as a newspaper reporter, Mr. Owen writes in a captivating voice, his acute observations granting authenticity to the bullet-speed pace of the story. Newspaperman Willie Black is masterfully created, ink and dark humor coursing through his hardboiled veins. It is hoped that this is the beginning of a series of books staring Willie and crew. Bring on the sequel!'' --New York Journal of Books
''Oregon Hill could serve as a textbook for a sub-genre that might best be called Southern noir. It hits all the stations of the noir cross, but unlike a lot of noir, it empathizes with the suffering that a hard-boiled world inflicts. Owen doesn't skimp on the hard-boiled stuff, though . . . Hard-boiled fans will enjoy Oregon Hill. It's fast, surprisingly intricate, and often grim.'' --Richmond Times-Dispatch
''Off-beat characters such as peripatetic drifter Awesome Dude and Owen's spot-on take on the slow death of a newspaper (shrinking pages, repeated staff cuts, on-line presence, blogging, etc.) add ballast. The deft and surprising plot builds to a satisfying ending. Readers will hope that Willie will soon return in a sequel.'' --Publishers Weekly
''Character-driven crime fiction executed with style.'' --Booklist
''Owen knows his setting, his dialogue is spot-on and his grasp of the down-and-dirty work of the police and news reporters lends authenticity to the narrative. This is Southern literature as expected, with a touch of noir, and with a touch of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Willie Black deserves a sequel.'' --Kirkus Reviews
''Place and culture play such a vital part in this mystery, the question is not so much who-dun-it as what-isn't-he-telling and how-does-he-know. The narrator's voice is convincing throughout and the characters leap from the page. Acts of remembrance, compassion, and love are redefined by accident, choice, or conviction. And the reader is pulled into the realities and compromises of an imperfect world, made just perfect enough in this story to carry the weight of hope and a future.'' --Cafe Libri
''While the narrative is certainly compelling, what gives Oregon Hill a degree of heft is its commentary on the fate of print journalism in the digital age . . . Reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen's Basket Case, Oregon Hill is as smart as it is thrilling, a true literary page-turner.'' --Small Press Reviews
''Oregon Hill could serve as a textbook for a sub-genre that might best be called Southern noir. It hits all the stations of the noir cross, but unlike a lot of noir, it empathizes with the suffering that a hard-boiled world inflicts. Owen doesn't skimp on the hard-boiled stuff, though . . . Hard-boiled fans will enjoy Oregon Hill. It's fast, surprisingly intricate, and often grim.'' --Richmond Times-Dispatch
''Off-beat characters such as peripatetic drifter Awesome Dude and Owen's spot-on take on the slow death of a newspaper (shrinking pages, repeated staff cuts, on-line presence, blogging, etc.) add ballast. The deft and surprising plot builds to a satisfying ending. Readers will hope that Willie will soon return in a sequel.'' --Publishers Weekly
''Character-driven crime fiction executed with style.'' --Booklist
''Owen knows his setting, his dialogue is spot-on and his grasp of the down-and-dirty work of the police and news reporters lends authenticity to the narrative. This is Southern literature as expected, with a touch of noir, and with a touch of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Willie Black deserves a sequel.'' --Kirkus Reviews
''Place and culture play such a vital part in this mystery, the question is not so much who-dun-it as what-isn't-he-telling and how-does-he-know. The narrator's voice is convincing throughout and the characters leap from the page. Acts of remembrance, compassion, and love are redefined by accident, choice, or conviction. And the reader is pulled into the realities and compromises of an imperfect world, made just perfect enough in this story to carry the weight of hope and a future.'' --Cafe Libri
''While the narrative is certainly compelling, what gives Oregon Hill a degree of heft is its commentary on the fate of print journalism in the digital age . . . Reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen's Basket Case, Oregon Hill is as smart as it is thrilling, a true literary page-turner.'' --Small Press Reviews
About the Author
HOWARD OWEN is a novelist and journalist living in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he and his wife, Karen, are editors for the Free Lance-Star. His novels include Littlejohn, Fat Lightning, Rock of Ages, and The Reckoning.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Oregon Hill by Howard Owen
By Librarian
When the headless body of college student Isabel Ducharme is found snagged on a tree branch in the South Anna River of Richmond, Virginia, night beat reporter Willie Mays Black knows this will be a big story. And Willie desperately needs a big story. Approaching 50 and thrice-divorced, he knows his long-term employment prospects at the newspaper are rapidly dimming. So, when his former wife Kate agrees to defend the prime suspect in Isabel's murder--one Martin Fell--and asks for his help in proving the man's innocence, Willie cannot turn away from the fight. After all, he grew up in Richmond's hard-scrabble Oregon Hill where he still lives, works, and drinks, and he has some serious doubts about the "confession" obtained by the police. But he never expected the fight to get deadly.
"Oregon Hill" by Howard Owen is a character-driven mystery enhanced by the first-person observations of the very self-aware narrator, Willie Mays Black. Black knows exactly who he is and makes no apologies for his shortcomings. In some respects, he is the male counterpart to Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone--a sarcastic observer of the people and places that define his life. And the more he becomes convinced of Martin Fell's innocence, the more determined he is to find Isabel's killer. Black's outlook on life is shaded by his childhood in Oregon Hill as the son of a single pot-smoking white mother and a black father he never knew. He is not intimidated by the police officers who resent his suggestions in his news blog that there is something suspicious about exactly how they obtained Fell's confession. As Willie pursues various leads, he must also deal with other people and issues in his life, including his roommate who has been accused of stealing from his neighbors, the layoffs at his newspaper, and his mother's latest boyfriend who is slowly sliding into dementia. It all makes for an entertaining and colorful mix of character, plot and setting that should please those who enjoy David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter or Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
evocatively secretive murder mystery
By Sheila Deeth
Dark and gritty, grounded in an unflinching depiction of time and place, and built on bitter loves and truths, Howard Owen's evocatively secretive Oregon Hill solves a present murder mystery by following echoes from the past. Protagonist Willie Black is an old-school reporter. He never lets anyone beat him to the press, even if he has been reassigned to the night cops, lowest of the low in this new-world, money-oriented, technologically twisted day. Of course, those cops and lawyers keep secrets of their own as well. And the past hides its shadows in remembered streets and the awkward hopes of one mixed-race boy and his Native American school friend.
Oregon Hill starts with reporter Willie beating the cops to a crime scene, but the sight's one he might have preferred to avoid, gory and filled with the sort of detail that has readers glued to their newspapers while parents, like Willie, frantically phone their college-age daughters. A quick confession puts the perpetrator put behind bars, always assuming, of course, that the confession is real.
When Willie begins to assume otherwise, his employers, neighbors and the mighty arm of the law all think he's mad. Willie's hunting the story of his life, the salvation of his career, and possibly justice. But he's also hunting back through the pages of history on Richmond Virginia's Oregon Hill. Memories keep secrets too as readers follow the newspaper's tick-tock, desperate to see justice done and just as frustrated as Willie's allies when he sets out on his own.
Place and culture play such a vital part in this mystery, the question is not so much who-dun-it as what-isn't-he-telling and how-does-he-know. The narrator's voice is convincing throughout and the characters leap from the page. Acts of remembrance, compassion and love are redefined by accident, choice or conviction. And the reader is pulled into the realities and compromises of an imperfect world, made just perfect enough in this story to carry the weight of hope and a future.
Disclosure: I received a free bound galley of this novel from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Grabbed my attention.
By kansasplains
Stayed up most of the night to finish this book. I'm a westerner/midwesterner, haven't much experience with eastern cities, so I enjoyed hearing the nitty-gritty of tough neighborhoods. A night cop reporter, Willie Black is not particularly lovable, given his bad habits and past transgressions, but he certainly is likable, and I was rooting for him all the way. Painful, but very true, also, was Owens depiction of the sorry state of print journalism these days. Felt like I was right in the newsroom (which I have been).
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