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Find a body. Become a suspect. Take dangerous risks. It’s all part of the job for Willie Black in “Jordan’s Branch” (The Permanent Press, $29.95, 232 pages), the 10th novel in Howard Owen’s Richmond-set series featuring the police reporter for the city’s daily newspaper. When college acquaintance Randolph Giles “Stick” Davis returns to Richmond after several years in the British West Indies, he hires Willie to write his life story for $50,000. But Stick’s murder—Willie discovers the corpse—leaves Willie with only the $5,000 down payment and Police Chief L.D. Jones’ scrutiny. The middle-class Westwood neighborhood where Stick lived was once a haven for former slaves and home to a portion of a creek, Jordan’s Branch. And it’s near the stream—now mostly buried—that Willie unearths a threat of coming destruction in Virginia.

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