Willowood
by Will Hopkins
1952 in Norfolk, Virginia. Detective Walter Hodge figures he's seen it all until this murder on the Cape Charles ferry - a guy shot dead in a plumber's rig loaded with a half-ton of bagged cane sugar. The story leads Hodge down a trail tangled with Norfolk characters and low-lifes, hillbilly toughs, a crooked preacher and enough moonshine liquor to float a coal barge.