Howard Owen

• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith. Painstakingly honest, Littlejohn is "a character as fully rounded in his quirks and imperfectio...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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Driven by their father to become successful, twin brothers Tom Ed and Jack are torn apart when Jack contracts polio and is cruelly dismissed as useless by the family, and years later he vows to reestablish himself. Reprint....

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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A visionary who dreams about eating kindling wood called “fat lightning” and sees Christ on the Cross in his barn forms an unlikely league with his nephew’s frustrated wife in a small Southern town....

• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a Black teen...

• Jun-2004
• / Suspense
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No one thought Jack Stone of Speakeasy, Virginia, was the kind of man who would try to solve his problems with a .38. But here he is, on a train to New York, armed and dangerously determined that somebody is going to read his damn novel. Jack once ha...

• May-2006
• / Suspense
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From the author of Littlejohn: A haunting novel that will “appeal to readers of Southern fiction and to genre fans who favor character-driven crime stories” (Booklist).   Littlejohn McCain has been dead eleven years. In that time, his d...

• Dec-2010
• / Mystery
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George James and Freeman Hawk were unlikely friends. George was part of soft-spoken, old-money Richmond; Freeman came from a hardscrabble country family mired in poverty and marked by violence.
Fate threw them together long ago as freshman roomma...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2012 Hammett Prize

Praising Oregon Hill, The New York Times says Howard Owen is "a writer we can't wait to hear again".

Willie Black has squandered a lot of things in his life - his liver, his lungs, a couple of former wi...

• Aug-2013
• / General Fiction
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Black is back. Willie Black was last seen, in Oregon Hill, risking the final tattered remnants of his checkered careeer - and his life - to free a man almost everyone else believed was guilty. Willie's still covering the night police beat with its DD...

• Jul-2014
• / Thriller
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Les Hacker doesn't seem to have an enemy in the world - other than whoever tried to kill him with a high-powered rifle while he was sitting on a park bench six floors below Willie Black's living room window. Les is the closest thing Willie has had to...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Don’t torture yourself, Ruth Crowder Flood has always told Harry Stein. Don’t let your life be ruined by what might have been. But he can’t help it. And, in truth, neither can she. In the one short moment that was theirs, Ruth had too much prid...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Before he let his life fall apart, James “Neil” Beauchamp was special. He lived and flourished in the world of privilege, adored and accommodated. Then, before he truly learned to appreciate it, the one talent that lifted him from a small life in...

• Sep-2015
• / Thriller
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Richmond is in a panic. For the fourth time in eighteen months, a young girl or woman has been brutalized and murdered. This time the body of a fourteen-year-old girl is found in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom train station. On her ankle is the same perve...

• Oct-2016
• / Mystery
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Life is cheap on the poor side of town. For more than two decades, young black kids have been disappearing from Richmond's East End. No bodies have ever been found, and the missing boys haven't received much attention from police or the media. When t...

• Jul-2017
• / Private Investigator
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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 ho...

• Apr-2018
• / Amateur Sleuth
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In the fall of 1967, Grayson Melvin met the girl of his dreams. Annie Lineberger was so far out his league that he felt like she was playing an entirely different game, but somehow he won her affections. He couldn't believe his good luck while it las...

• Jan-2019
• / Mystery
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A familiar name piques Willie Black's interest on a slow news day: Scuffletown Park. He and the first of his four wives lived next to the pocket park when they were young and still on speaking terms. Now, Scuffletown is the site of a crime scene, one...

• Jul-2019
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Willie Black knew he had a father, even if he didn't know where he was buried. It wasn't like Artie Lee gave his son anything but his genes. He died when Willie was 15 months old, and Artie and Peggy never married. They couldn't have, in the segregat...

• Jun-2020
• / Amateur Sleuth
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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 wal...

• Feb-2021
• / Mystery
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When Willie Black finds an old acquaintance brutally murdered in the man's rental house in Westwood, it's personal. Willie was being paid to write Stick Davis's memoirs, but now Stick's dead, the memoir is half-written and Willie's out a promised $40...

• Nov-2021
• / Mystery
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Richmond is shut down and masked up amid the COVID pandemic. Then, Black Lives Matter outrage evolves into an attack on the Confederate monuments that have long been despised by much of the city population. What else could happen? Willie Black, night...

• Jan-2023
• / General Fiction
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When a blue-collar guy without an enemy in the world shows up brutally murdered down by the railroad tracks in Dogtown, everyone in Richmond is mystified. Then an elderly couple, also seemingly blameless, are slaughtered in their upscale home a coupl...