Grace

Proof positive that despite the title of police reporter Willie Black’s fifth appearance, things can indeed get worse for both the city of Richmond and its daily newspaper. A ten-year-old kid named Artesian Cole has gone missing and the police don’t seem to care. Owen uses his reflective, self-destructive hero to illuminate both the racial problems of his hometown and the ongoing death of the newspaper he loves, even though it doesn’t love him back. —Kirkus Reviews