New Ben Perkins short stories
The Go-To Man
Just before lapsing into a coma, a dying man tells his caregivers his last wish: to see his brother one more time. Ben Perkins, between jobs and with not much to do at the moment, gets the assignment. It seems simple enough--until Ben finds out that the brother doesn't seem ever to have existed. . . .
Down Home Blues
Visiting the north Georgia mountains to attend the funeral of a distant relative -- and also to escape for the moment some tough situations back home -- Ben manages to wander into another tough situation. While repairing some plumbing in his cousin's rental cabin, he gets the sick itch in the back of his brain that suggests that things are not right with the couple renting the place for Final Four weekend. . . .
Sticky Fingers
Spur of the moment sex with a total stranger? Would Ben do such a thing? Well. . .yes. Of course it could all turn out well for him and Ms. Right Now, but that seems unlikely. Especially when it turns out she has a proposition for Ben -- on the just slightly illegal side. . . .
Riddle Run
Callie, an old friend, hires Perkins to take some surreptitious pictures involving her husband: retired businessman and baseball star Vic Davis. All innocent, of course. All on the up-and-up. But, with Ben Perkins, assignments seldom stay so innocent. And, acting on Callie's behalf -- if against her express wishes -- he finds himself digging into a half-century-old crime and a monstrous miscarriage of justice. . . .