Oregon Hill Book

Reporter Willie Black has squandered many things in his life, including a cushy job covering—and partying with—the politicians at the capitol. Now he's back on the night cops beat, right where he started almost thirty years ago. But the thing Willie's always had going for him, since his hardscrabble days as a mixed-race kid on Oregon Hill, is grit. When a coed at the local university is murdered, the alleged killer is arrested within days. Everyone seems to think the case is closed—except Willie. Embarking on a one-man crusade to get the story, he runs afoul of David Junior Shiflett, a nightmare from his youth who's now a city cop, and awakens a dark force everyone thought disappeared long ago.