Laburnum with Howard Owen

Howard Owen needs no introduction from us! He'll be talking about his latest novel in the Willie Black series at Sam Miller's Restaurant.

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About the Book:

A body is left dangling from the upper floor of a historic Richmond mansion. The victim turns out to be a staunch gun-rights advocate in the state legislature.

While the cops are trying to figure out who and why, Willie Black is hot on their heels, going after a story for his floundering newspaper and maybe coincidentally abetting the pursuit of justice. Willie’s chase leads him to two sisters with a grudge who are tidying up a few loose ends.

Laburnum, the latest Willie Black mystery, takes readers on a cook’s tour of old Richmond, where the past never seems to die and old scores from long-ago family feuds get settled, sometimes in spectacularly gruesome ways.

Jordan Wilkes and Carrington Ranier are two women who saw their childhood dream world turn into a nightmare when what they believed was their rightful inheritance was yanked away from them. They don’t know if they’ll get away with it, but as Willie and the police learn, they’ve passed the point where they might really have given a damn.

As Willie continues to hang on to a night-cops reporting position that gets less rewarding by the year, he finds out that unemployment could be the least of his potential worries.

About the Author:

Howard Owen is a retired journalist and the author of 24 novels. The 24th, Laburnum, came out in December. Owen’s 10th novel and first mystery, Oregon Hill, won the 2012 Dashiell Hammett Prize for best crime literature in North America, given by the International Association of Crime Writers. Owen began writing fiction at the age of 40. His first book, Littlejohn, was a best-seller. The Washington Post called its protagonist "a character as fully rounded in his quirks and imperfections, in his quiet determination and bravery, as any in recent fiction." Owen was an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor for 44 years, 28 years at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he was sports editor and deputing managing editor, and eight years as business editor and editorial pages editor of The Free Lance-Star. He was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He lives in Richmond, Va., with his wife, Karen.

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