Willie Black Books in Order

Demoted back to the night cops beat, Willie Black refuses to accept an easy arrest in the murder of a college student. His reporting drags him through old neighborhood grudges and a reckoning rooted deep in Oregon Hill.

Five days after DNA frees Richard Slade, the woman who accused him of rape is found shot dead. Willie Black doubts the obvious story and follows the case into Richmond privilege, buried history, and the murky waters of the Quarry.

When Willie's surrogate father is shot, he starts tracing the lives of a forgotten 1964 minor league team. What looks like a simple case opens into a strange pattern of deaths and a mystery nobody else wants to touch.

A serial killer case becomes personal when a murdered girl's body is dumped at Shockoe Bottom after a phone call linked to Willie's daughter. At the same time, Willie battles a developer whose plans threaten Richmond's buried history.

When a missing boy from Richmond's East End finally forces attention, Willie Black starts asking why so many Black children have vanished unnoticed. His search collides with city politics, old wounds, and a case the police may be eager to close.

After a small plane crashes into a Richmond bar, Willie Black chases the question that survives the wreckage: why? The case turns personal fast, and his search leads from city rumor to a hidden life on the Chesapeake.

A dying woman asks Willie Black to tend his father's grave, sending him into Richmond's abandoned Evergreen Cemetery. The search for Artie Lee becomes a search through family history, buried secrets, and truths Willie may wish he never found.

Blood in Scuffletown Park turns into trouble when a photo seems to show Willie's old friend Abe Custalow standing over a corpse. To save Abe, Willie digs into a case his friend desperately wants left alone.

A severed leg found on Belle Isle pulls Willie Black into the death of former football star Teddy Delmonico. With politics, money, and old grudges swirling around the victim, Willie has to sort through a crowded field of suspects.

When Willie Black is found near the murder of memoir subject Stick Davis, he has to clear his own name. His digging leads him into Richmond history and a violent neo-Nazi plot rooted along the nearly forgotten Jordan's Branch creek.

During Richmond's pandemic lockdown and monument protests, Willie Black investigates the murder of a bookstore-owning couple. The easy suspect is the autistic son of Willie's ex-wife, and Willie can't shake the feeling the police have the wrong man.

A corpse on a tombstone in Hollywood Cemetery and a tycoon's sudden death look unrelated, but Willie Black isn't buying it. His reporting uncovers a connection between present-day murder and old Richmond grievances that never really died.