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Title: Parker Field

Subtitle: A Willie Black Mystery, Book 3

Author: Howard Owen

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

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 a father figure in a checkered life of drinking, divorces, and journalism. He certainly has better qualifications than any of the other men Willie's 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.

There's only one problem. As Willie tries to get in touch with other members of that team, he discovers that they are almost all below ground - most of them long before their allotted three-score and 10 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. Willie's publisher and the police want him to stop wasting his time - and theirs - and 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, he's a pit bull who won't 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 he's chasing a story nobody else wants, who can be his own worst enemy and the underdog's best friend.

Members Reviews:

Richmond paper mystery

An author who knows the ends outs of Richmond, Va and is an excellent story teller. Richmond minor league baseball.

Great Story, Cast and Setting

I love this series! Willie Black's complicated history, his rich assortment of friends and family who are so definitely not all young, beautiful, and brainy, and the gritty urban setting all make for a world I want to visit. And Owen knows how to tell a good story. I've read all three and can't wait for the next one.

Willie Black is Back

Another in the excellent series by Howard Owen about Richmond newspaper reporter Willie Black. Engaging, entertaining, suspenseful and pure fun.

Very enjoyable book.

A page turner with a nice protagonist. Willie Black's a good guy, for all his faults. Lots and lots of local color that we, as happy Richmonders, love. I think people "not from around here" will enjoy it, too.

by the numbers

Saw it coming 14 miles away. If you're going to churn one out by the numbers, you really shouldn't have your murderer do it that way too.