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Title: Parker Field: A Willie Black Mystery
Author: Howard Owen
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2014-06-27
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories
Publisher's Summary:
Les Hacker doesnt seem to have an enemy in the worldother than whoever tried to kill him with a high-powered rifle while he was sitting on a park bench six floors below Willie Blacks living room window. Les is the closest thing Willie has had to a father figure in a checkered life of drinking, divorces, and journalism. He certainly has better qualifications than any of the other men Willies mother, Peggy, took in over the years. Of course, as Willie would say, that would only make him a tall midget.
Now, with Les clinging to life, Willie decides to take a short sabbatical and do a story about his surrogate dad and the last minor-league baseball team Les played on: the 1964 Richmond Virginians.
Theres only one problem. As Willie tries to get in touch with other members of that team, he discovers that they are almost all below groundmost of them long before their allotted three-score and ten years. The cops already have Les shooter in jail, a homeless guy who hangs out in the park. The shot was fired from his coat pocket, case closed. Willies publisher and the police want him to stop wasting his timeand theirsand get back on the beat. Willie becomes convinced, though, that someone, against all logic, is killing the entire starting lineup of a long-forgotten minor-league baseball team. And when Willie gets his teeth on the truth, hes a pit bull who wont let anything short of a shot to the head force him to let go.
In this third Willie Black novel, after Hammett Prize finalist Oregon Hill and The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen brings back his flawed, ink-stained hero, a reporter who seems to do his best work when hes chasing a story nobody else wants, who can be his own worst enemy and the underdogs best friend.
In Hammett Prizewinner Owens enjoyable third mystery featuring biracial Richmond, Va., newspaper reporter Willie Black, Willie rushes to the scene of a shooting in Monroe ParkThe deliciously flawed Willie must contend with ex-wives and offbeat friends like Awesome Dude, not to mention an adversarial relationship with newspaper management and Richmond police chief L.D. Jones, on his way to righting another injustice.Publishers Weekly