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1) Oregon Hill
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Reporter Willie Black investigates when a student, who attends the same university as his daughter, is murdered, embarking on a one-man crusade to identify the killer even after the police and his bosses consider the case closed.
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Willie Black was last seen, in Oregon Hill, risking the final tattered remnants of his checkered career - and his life - to free a man almost everyone else believed guilty. Willie's still covering the night police beat with its violent drug deals and dirt naps, still avoiding the hawk that periodically swoops down to pluck away a few more of his colleagues in a floundering business. He still drinks too much, smokes too much, and disobeys too much....
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When a twin-engine Beechcraft crashes into one of Richmond's watering holes and turns happy hour into hell, theories run rampant. Was it terrorists who, for some reason, decided to vent their spleens on unsuspecting Richmond? Was it a statement by homegrown killers less than thrilled that the city still, in the twenty-first century, chooses to honor Confederate leaders on its most prominent avenue?
4) Belle Isle
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When two teenage lovers find a human leg while cavorting in the thickets of Belle Isle, can Willie Black be far behind? Belle Isle, in the middle of the James River, was one of Willie's party spots growing up wild in Oregon Hill, and it's a short walk from where he now resides in the posh Prestwould. Now, as the 50-something night cops reporter for the local daily, he returns to his old haunts to try to unravel a mystery. When it becomes known that...