The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen
The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen
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The Philadelphia Quarry

Author: Howard Owen

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2013


Synopsis

Black is back. Willie Black was last seen, inOregon Hill, risking the final tattered remnants of his checkered careerand his lifeto free a man almost everyone else believed guilty. Willies 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. The only thing that keeps him employed is that hes a damn fine reporter. Even his beleaguered bosses would concede that. Willie finds himself neck-deep in a part of Richmond that a boy growing up in Oregon Hill could only experience through illicit midnight sorties to the citys most exclusive swimming hole. The Quarry was where Alicia Parker Simpson identified Richard Slade as her rapist twenty-eight years ago. Five days after DNA evidence recently freed Slade from the prison system in which he had spent his adult life, Alicia Simpson was found shot to death. Almost everyone thinks Slade did itwho can blame them?but Willie has his doubts. And when the full weight of the citys old money falls on him, trying to crush the story, he becomes even more determined to chase the thing that always seems to get him into trouble: the truth. That Richard Slade is his cousin and a link to his long-dead African American father only makes Willie that much more tenacious. In the end Willie will be drawn back to the Philadelphia Quarry, where it all started so long ago and in whose murky waters the truth lies.

About Howard Owen

Howard Owen has been a longtime newspaperman, working at everything from reporter to sports editor to editorial pages editor. He has been writing fiction since 1989. He and his wife, Karen, live in Richmond, Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tommaso

Apparentemente è un giallo, ma questo romanzo ha varie chiavi di lettura: 1) la libertà di stampa ed il problema delle pressioni della proprietà sui giornalisti 2) il razzismo sistemico che individua nelle minoranze il colpevole per definizione.......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

The Philadelphia Quarry is Howard Owen's second Willie Black mystery. I must go back and read the first one because I love Willie despite myself. He chain smokes unfiltered cigarettes, drinks way too much, cusses like an old-time sailor, and other assorted sins, i.e. has neglected his only child unt......more

Goodreads review by Sheila

Willie Black works the night cop beat at a Richmond Virginia newspaper, where technology and the economy's downturn combine to darken his prospects. He and his colleagues await the day when they’ll be told to clear out their desks, but surely there’s still a place for honest reporting and investigat......more

As we learned in the first book of this series, Oregon Hill, reporter Willie Black is not one to back off the story even when his bosses or the powerful elite order him to do so. While those in charge may think it is a character flaw, like his drinking, others would see it as his way of being princi......more