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Final Fling: a Ben Perkins crime novel
Rip Brownlee was never husband of the year. But not even Bonabell, his long-suffering wife, thinks Rip deserved to end up dead, gutted like a fish in the back of his van. The cops call it the work of a random street crazy. Bonabell's not buying it.
So she calls in Detroit private detective Ben Perkins. Fresh off a year on break from the rough stuff – he hasn't even bothered to replace his .45 automatic – Ben's fighting fires of many flavors: girlfriend, family, job, cop. But he agrees to look into Rip's death.
Working his way through Rip's murky world of shady deals, skanky girls, and secret sins, Ben learns more than he'd care to. But there's even more he does not know. Rip's murder, while certainly crazy, was anything but random. From long ago and far away, Rip's killer draws closer by the day. And sooner rather than later, Ben Perkins will wish he had his old .45 back.
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The Long Way Home: a novel of suspense
This dark, gripping, edgy tale of revenge, murder, and interlocking conspiracies puts the world’s ultimate nice guy at the mercy of a most ruthless and calculating killer. Businessman Frank Bridgman believes he has the finest of lives: great career, nice house, devoted lover, rewarding charity work, loyal friends. Little aware is he of the dark forces gathering strength around him - and how hard he’ll have to fight to save all he has, up to and including his very life, against these forces. Which are, it develops, led by one he has thought of as a friend, who turns out in fact to be a most deadly and calculating of enemies, armed with a brilliant intellect, boundless energy, a garrote, an automatic pistol, and a triple-tined pitch fork. . . .
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Clean Slate: a novel of suspense
It was meant to be a routine roust. But it got completely out of hand.
For years, Debby Brody has made her living providing discreet personal services to the city's most powerful and best-connected. But lately she's made one of those people nervous. So a high-profile police bust was arranged, to send her the message to get gone and stay there. But the detective in charge of the roust got a little carried away. He not only locked Brody up; he also, with great public fanfare, took into police custody records from the madam's office - records that, the madam let it be known, named names.
Which created a media feeding-frenzy, and made certain judges, police commanders, and other officials even more nervous.
Into this explosive situation comes Mac McGladrey, a career parole officer, newly returned to his big-city job from a year-long leave. Hardly recovered from one of the most horrendous losses a person can endure, he wants only to reconnect with his many friends, resume his place in his large and diverse family, create a home, and – above all else – avoid trouble. In these ways the Navy vet plans to achieve for the first time a quiet life.
Instead, driven by duty and principle, Mac steps in to help Eddie Fant, a Vietnam War hero and an especially troubled probationer. Unbeknownst to Mac, Eddie, out of greed and naivete, has managed to steal some of the madam's confiscated records. This makes him the target of the powerful people who want those records suppressed – at all costs. . . .
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